I live in beautiful Pembrokeshire, West Wales, and I graduated from Norwich School of Art and Design in 1997 with a BA Hons in Fine Art Painting. After a long period carving out life experiences; travelling and living abroad, having children, I applied for the MA in Fine Art at Aberystwyth University in 2013.  I completed the MA in 2016 and I graduated in July 2017.

Taking this step back into my creativity allowed me to discover a new visual language, and took me into an exploration of my own psyche.

As I mature as an artist I am interested exploring the juxtaposition between abstraction and figurative art.

Almost always it is the more abstract work which resonates with people in an emotive and subconscious way. My figurative works appeal to those who prefer to be able to attribute what is on the canvas to something they recognise in their experience or surroundings.

One painting always informs another.

The enjoyment of translating an image into my own language and colour palette is arguably as interesting and compelling as creating an image from what is, initially, arbitrary mark making and intuitive process painting.

What is explored and understood in one painting can then be reimagined in another; changing the tools which are used to paint with and relying on visual memory and emotional responses.

The motifs in my work are interchangeable. Landscape and crustaceans have become part of the growing catalogue of motifs that exist within the visual vocabulary of my work.

Colour and the emotive response it can evoke is consistently present. Be it a seascape or a building in an imagined landscape, colour communicates more than form or mark can alone and it is colour that is the continuous thread in all that I create.