ABOUT

I am a creative artist with a love of colour and expressive mark-making. My work explores my feelings about the landscape and environment around me, inspired by light, colour and memories of what I have seen or experienced.

I like my work to feel joyful and uplifting, pulling the viewer into playful and imaginary places.

This is my online gallery of acrylic, mixed media and watercolour paintings.

Please use menu links to view all works and prices.

After Training at the Royal College of Art in London I have practised as an artist and teacher at schools of art and secondary schools in the UK.

I am lucky enough now to be able to focus fully on my art practise as well as teaching abstract art workshops.

My work is abstract or semi abstract, but I am inspired by experience and memory, working intuitively to capture my feelings about places I have seen or imagined or people I love.

I build up layers and respond to the colours and marks I make.

I am directly inspired by the beautiful landscape of my home in the English Lake District - the hills and lakes I walk around in the constantly changing light, or the marks and textures on the land and rocks. Some of my paintings are about yearnings - places I dream of or have travelled to - heat, sun and contrasts of light and shade, or turquoise seas in a perfect lagoon, or tropical flowers and lush greenery.

I use paint and marks to describe my emotional response to the things I see and feel. The titles are meaningful for me, but I like to think the viewer can engage in a journey and freely interpret what they see.