An outgoing introvert, a seeker of quiet spaces in a busy world and with careers in Garden Design and Portrait Photography behind me, I now paint full time and live and work between the lower Wye Valley and my family's homeland, Cornwall.
I paint about our complex internal landscapes; about the world that we feel rather than see. I'm captivated by the way we all perceive the world differently. For me, art is a fascinating way of exploring this internal world.
My painting process is intuitive and meditative, and I often feel my thoughts unfolding as I lift the paintbrush to the canvas.
I paint mostly with acrylics in the familiar rich earthy colours of the Wye Valley although I love to experiment with more unusual materials such as copper sulphate and iron filings. My paintings will often look like a landscape you might recognise, but aren't of a particular place; more a response to a half formed memory, or an echo of a dream.
I've recently been thinking about the subject of grief, having lost my mother at the end of 2020, and how my sadness around that event is complicated by the experience of living through the pandemic and the climate crisis. My work is becoming more pared back and calmer in response to the growing chaos in the world around me.