About Me
How I Got Here
Initially trained in sculpture and drawing at the City and Guilds London Art School, exploration and experimentation led me on a path to watercolour and printmaking. I can still remember the feeling I got walking into the print room there, with its enormous, ancient press - and the thrill of lifting up your finished print to see the result.
I am drawn to the natural world and especially the parts that live and move in a different element - the air and the water. Capturing movement is something I come back to again and again, and which I find mesmerising in fluid watercolour. I enjoy the uncertainty of the finished result - what effects the drying paint will make as it swirls on the page. I paint in a loose, expressive style, and I am also hugely influenced by pared back Japanese art - in both my watercolour painting and my printmaking.
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I am also fascinated by the nature within. I am striving to explore ideas such as belonging, loss, and what connects us to a time and place. The idea of Home, the idea of connection - so core to human nature.
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My studio is a beautiful little cottage in our garden - built originally as a music studio in the 1950s. I love the fact that it was purposely built for creative pursuits! There are views out over the garden, and roses climbing all around the big French doors out. It's a perfect place to relax, and get inspired.
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I have taught art to adults and children for over 16 years, including as a tutor at Waterperry Gardens and at their incredible Art in Action summer festival - which is so sadly missed now. I now run workshops and classes from my own studio, and also through the fabulous Where Inspiration Blooms. I also have experience in teaching individual lessons supporting portfolio work for scholarship assessments, workshops within schools, and to local art groups in Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire. I hold a PGCE in Secondary education - and I genuinely love teaching! I would never stop running classes and workshops alongside my own practice - partly because I feel very passionate about helping people to find and nurture their own creative drive, but also because I learn so much myself from teaching others. It really is a 2-way experience.
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My work has been sold through galleries in London, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire, and my pieces are in collections around the world including the UK, Sweden, Denmark, Switzerland, Australia and the USA.
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When I'm not in my studio or running a workshop, I can usually be found cooking for my large family, walking though the gorgeous woods and fields around where I live, or reading (preferably with one of my cats curled up on my lap). I am also forever drawn to the coast, and the wild places.
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