My frequent visits and walks in Cumbria and Northumbria are the inspiration behind my artwork. Repeated visits to these special places and Lindisfarne, Holy Island, made me question why I pursue these personal pilgrimages and what was the significance for me building stone towers at each visit; my own offering, a religious ritual if you like. Every culture around the world has built stone towers (or stone piles) with a significant meaning, unknown to me I was reviving a ritualistic act that has occurred throughout history. Reliving history and repeating memories of the past combined with the importance of un-hewn stones in religions and cultures all play and important part in my art.

I used photography to document the building of stone towers at my special places and created a series of artworks from these. My repetitive prints represent the ritual, the repeated act, the importance of place and location and of history repeating itself. Presenting my work as a scroll and as a stained glass window further embeds this 'religious' ritual, representing its cross-cultural significance.

My work asks the viewer to question their own ritualistic acts, their purpose and why repetition holds such importance.