My name is Julia McKenzie and I am based in London. I trained at Camberwell School of Art and have a BA degree in Fine Art.

My work is primarily drawing based layered with paper cuts and collage. I am also beginning to experiment with printmaking.

I am interested in drawing and recording what I can find in my immediate environment. I look for the evidence of nature I can hold in my hand from my suburban garden to what I can find on my travels to the sea or the countryside.

I am interested in natural forms that have been eroded, buffeted and broken down.  I look for the imperfect that exposes complex structures and core elements. I like residues and husks of animals, plants or minerals that have survived long enough for us to find and examine. The time scale could be a day to a million years.

I find the same beauty in the fragility of a dragonfly wing to the etched pattern on the fossilised remains of an urchin found on the banks the river Thames. They share much more than they do not. They are both easily missed if you are not looking for them.