Carpenter’s surreal collages are concerned with psychological dynamics; our relationships with ourselves, partners, friends and the natural world. 

Using precise pictorial arrangements Carpenter creates portraits of complex inner worlds laced with visual references to repression, sex, disintegration and desire. She employs elements cut from fashion magazines to point to unbridled self-expression and, images from the natural world: shells, fungi, reptiles to add layers of metaphor, and humorous nod toward fairy tales.