Hello and Welcome
I’ve always felt connected to nature, even before I had the words for it. I can remember being outside a lot as a child, noticing things, collecting materials, and making small spaces or dens out of whatever was around me. It wasn’t something I thought about — it just felt natural.
That connection has stayed with me ever since. For me, it’s really about paying attention — to detail, and the way things feel when you’re around them. It’s a sensory and intuitive way of engaging with the world, something that happens through experience rather than planning.
I’m often drawn to the physical feel of materials, the way light sits on surfaces, or how something changes depending on how it’s held, moved, or placed. That sense of response is at the centre of everything I do.
Over time, I’ve always made things in different ways — drawing, working with materials, building, shaping — and painting has always been part of that rather than something separate. It’s all part of the same instinct to observe and respond, just expressed through different materials and ways of working.
My work is very process-led. I rarely begin with a fixed outcome in mind — instead, things tend to develop through making itself. I’m interested in structure, repetition, natural form, and the quiet decisions that happen through connecting to my senses.
When I’m working on commissions or pieces made to order, the process is slightly different. I spend more time looking and understanding what I’m responding to — often using reference images, video, and where possible observing the subject in real life
I’ll usually start with sketches, and sometimes small studies or models, before making the final piece. Even then, there’s still space for interpretation. It’s not about copying something exactly, but about translating it through my own way of working — through materials, process, and intuition.
The work takes shape in different ways: . I like how this offers a different way into the same practice — whether that’s living with a finished piece, or spending time making something yourself.
In 2021, I was awarded a Art’s Council grant which funded a artist residency at Tudor House Museum and Garden, Southampton and allowed me to take time out to explore different ways of working, several of her works are now on display in the house and gardens,
To discover a little about my creative journey watch this film was made during my residency.
If you are interested in finding out more about my experimental practise pop over to my sister website jrolls.co.uk