The process usually begins with looking. An image, an object, a place, a colour, a mark, or something almost unnoticed can be enough to start an idea.

An idea is given room to change. Drawing can lead to an image, an image can lead somewhere else, and something unexpected can become more interesting than the original thought. The process is not always linear, and it does not need to be.

Experimentation is part of the work. Making, looking again, removing, repeating, combining, and sometimes starting over allow the work to develop without being overly predetermined. Different materials and forms offer different ways of thinking, and moving between them keeps the process open.

The finished piece is only part of what matters. What happens along the way matters too — the accidents, the changes, and the things discovered through making rather than planning. Those moments can redirect the work and allow it to develop in its own direction.

The work also develops through repetition, editing, layering, combination, and experimentation. A gesture may be kept because something in it feels unresolved; a form may be repeated until it begins to shift; an image may be altered without knowing exactly what is being sought.

Documentation and archiving can become part of the process too, not simply as records, but as material that can be returned to, reworked, and seen differently over time. Something made earlier can become the starting point for something new.

Sometimes an idea arrives clearly; at other times, it reveals itself only through making. A mark can be followed before it is understood, and a decision can be made without knowing where it will lead. What begins intuitively can gradually take shape as an image, a feeling, or an idea.

Moving between drawing, photography, painting, pattern, found elements, and other forms of making allows each idea to find the form it needs. The medium is not always predetermined; it is often discovered along the way.