My work translates lived experience into visual storytelling, using broken materials as a metaphor for emotional and physical reconstruction. As a Barbican Creative Hub resident in Lincoln, I’m developing A Physical and Psychological Response to Scars, a body of work rooted in imperfection, recovery, and the therapeutic power of making. I bring over 20 years of experience in commercial design but a series of life-altering events — corporate burnout, the death of my mother, and an accident that left me impaled by glass — radically shifted my focus. Mosaic became an instinctive and deeply personal form of expression.