The work is rooted in a phenomenological investigation into the experience of the individual in a man-made environment and their relation to the natural through this prism. My current work consists of paintings on a primed hardwood plywood surface, allowing the grain of the wood to enhance and inform the composition. I have borrowed shapes from discarded cardboard packing to help build structures representing man-made buildings, and looked at architectural models and at the way in which they are an idealization of a lived environment. I have turned ‘real’ buildings of the built environment into model-like structures, to highlight the fact that these buildings are man-made conceptions, thus encouraging the viewer to consider their meaning rather than bringing to mind a specific place. By painting these porous structures, I hope to give a greater sense of space and depth to highlight the mobility of the embodied individual in an environment and to restage this experience in viewing the paintings. I am using plant forms such as bindweed, nettles and thistles, which are pervasive in both urban and rural environments and I am using them to represent the natural in my work.