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 boys and my artistic pursuits. Painting is not simply something I do in my spare time; it is a necessity which grounds me and enables my spirit to feel ‘free’ and alive. When I paint, time dissolves and I am transported somewhere deeper. It is almost a meditative practice which allows me to reconnect to the earth and its elements restoring my mind, body, and spirit.

When I create a new piece, I feel guided by something deeply intuitive - an energy that moves through me and guides my palette, the form, texture, and brushstrokes. With my commission work, this guidance allows me to connect closely with the person I am painting for and I often find myself drawn to particular colours, more than often aligned with the chakra system, which naturally emerge within the painting. With each piece, I hope to create more than an image - it’s a doorway to feelings, memories, or mood which resonate on a deeply instinctive and 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”