biography

I have always painted but my earliest memories were with my late grandfather, a humble and deeply talented watercolour artist.  He shared both his wisdom and the challenges of painting with me early on in life. To have inherited his love of painting so young, I believe was where my destiny with the paintbrush was born.

As a single mother, I work full-time to support my two gorgeous little boys and to also support my artistic pursuits. Painting is critical to my life-force. It not only gives the souls of my hands the ultimate freedom to express what is of the greatest importance in life to me, there is also a necessity to it, like oxygen.

When I create a new piece, I believe that a greater universal energy actively guides my work process, infusing its energy into the colours, images, shapes and brushstrokes that form. It is deeply intuitive and spiritual work and with each piece, I hope to create a feeling, a memory, or a mood that resonates on a deep primal subconscious level.  

I do not know where this journey as an artist will take me. It appears to be dictated by experimentation, belief, necessity and luck. I love dancing between the discipline and sensitivity of a landscape one day and then in stark contrast, the total freedom that an abstract piece gives me. I do not have one set ‘style’ and suspect that as I continue to change and develop as a person, so too will my work.

My hope is that one day, my children will look at the art life map I have created for them and it will make them proud of the stories that I chose to tell in this lifetime.

“Art is important for it commemorates the season’s of the soul, or a special or tragic event in the soul’s journey. Art is not just for oneself, not just a marker of one’s own understanding. It is also a map for those who follow after us”…

Clarissa Pinkola Estes - “Women who run with the Wolves”