Hi, I’m Amber and I am obsessed with art and nature.

I’m a Kiwi based in the UK, exploring my new landscape and connecting with my homeland through paint. I enjoy walks in the woods, playing with colours, and writing. Reoccurring themes across my works are the land as a living entity, personal and collective memory, belonging and connection, what is home, and that interesting space between two seemingly opposing states: beauty and decay, grief and joy, past and present, light and shadow. Motifs I use to explore these concepts are trees, flowers, fruit, paths, bodies of water, and buildings.

My work is heavily influenced by my upbringing in rural New Zealand, where I come from a very large, now five-generational, working-class family who look to God to provide sustenance through the land. They are gardeners, farmers, fishers, hunters, builders. This upbringing cultivated a connection to land, community, spirituality, and creativity.

Moving with our young child to my husband’s homeland has also expanded the breadth of my work as I explore the concept of home, belonging, and seek to find connection amongst a new community.