I am a landscape and figurative artist living in Hampshire. Currently, I paint and teach art and have for many years. I very much love encouraging others to explore their creativity. This now happens in workshops and art classes in Hampshire.

Working in acrylics and mixed media, I create rich visual textures with layers of mark-making and colour. I enjoy capturing the light, the atmosphere, and my connection to the subject.

Through my painting I aim to express something of the sensory experience of being out in nature and love to pay attention to the sounds and the movements.

The work is both an emotional response and an attempt to convey a sense of wonder, intrigue, and exploration. This could be standing on the cliffs by the sea or on a regular walk with the dog near the edge of the city where I live and find glimpses of wildness where nature isn’t tamed.

Surface depth and subtle layering of colour, mark-making and texture are endlessly fascinating to me. This has always been of interest and one which I initially explored using fibres and textile processes gaining a degree in textiles/embroidery.

This building up of a surface is what I love the most. Making marks now with paint as the medium, the process of creating a piece commences with a loose and playful approach.

The initial idea directs the process but will unfold through several layers and many changes until the final story and composition arrives.

Sometimes a piece begins with a few words for the title, another time it is in response to an idea and the painting evolves to take on a life of its own.

There may be a narrative in the piece, a connection to a memory, or a feeling of nostalgia that engages an emotion as I use colour to explore textures and shapes.