Mentioned by Pliny the Elder in his Natural History, metalpoint drawing has an illustrious heritage, with its use in medieval monastic scriptoria and later, as silverpoint, by Dürer, da Vinci, Rembrandt … As a contemporary artist, I seek to go beyond the traditional use of metalpoint, while the very fact of using this ancient technique – indeed a slow art with its humble metal stylus – is the focus of my practice. My drawings of nature act as witnesses, often seeking to reveal the unnoticed, part of our environment which has supported human life for millennia and is now under great pressure. Place and time, often reflected in palimpsests, also inform my work, reflecting travels in Japan, Australia, America and Europe. My work is in the permanent collection of museums such as the British Museum, the V & A Museum, the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, BAMPFA, Berkeley, CA, the National Museum of Women In the Arts, Washington DC, the West Australian Museum, Perth, and many others