Collections
A selection of my work. If you want to see a piece more closely, click on it.
Foraging, Painting, Playing
Finding fallen beauty on woodland and park walks with my toddler son has changed my practice. Being with oft-overlooked bits of nature fires my curiousity. I’ve been combining them with natural pigments and milk paint, working sculpturally and with shadow too.
Foraging, Painting, Playing
Finding fallen beauty on woodland and park walks with my toddler son has changed my practice. Being with oft-overlooked bits of nature fired my curiousity. I've been combining them with natural pigments and milk paint, working sculpturally and with shadow too.
Fallen Treasures
Fallen leaves collected on an in-between-houses stay at our parents’ places in the South East of England. Some are from a park in Addlestone, Surrey, some from the streets of Otford, Kent and others from a day out at Winkworth Arboretum. All were brought home on an 8-hour train ride to Cornwall and photographed on my windwsill during a beautifully bright December morning.
Fallen Treasures
Fallen leaves collected during Autumn 2016 on an in-between-houses stay at our parents' places in the South East of England. Some are from a park in Addlestone, Surrey, some from the streets of Otford, Kent and others from a day out at Winkworth Arboretum. All were brought home on an 8-hour train ride to Cornwall and photographed on my windwsill during a beautifully bright December morning.
Toxin-free coloured joy.
Moving to Cornwall and changing my art process over to using natural pigments and hand-made milk paint released such joy. These colours were the result…
Toxin-free coloured joy
In the last few months of 2015, I moved, with my husband and little son, Gabriel, to the western tip of England. We now live in Penzance, on the Cornish coast. It took a few months to set me up a space to paint (in the corner of the kitchen, where 'normal' people have a dining table!), and it became my haven. This is what I created there in 2016:
Sea and Sky
I am endless fascinated, grounded, renewed and heartened by looking out to sea. It’s one of the reasons I love living in Cornwall so much. The light heals me; the colour and shapes inspire me. Here’s a few shots of sea and sky-scapes that I’ve captured using my iPhone 5 camera.
Sea and Sky
I am endless fascinated, grounded, renewed and heartened by looking out to sea. It's one of the reasons I love living in Cornwall so much. The light heals me; the colour and shapes inspire me. Here's a few shots of sea and sky-scapes that I've captured using my iPhone 5 camera.
Early Work
I started painting for the first time a few months before my 40th birthday. I’d just been through one of the most challenging times of my life. I stumbled across the work of Flora Bowley on Instragram and fell in love with the colour and freedom. I signed up for her e-course, Bloom True. There, I learnt about acrylic paints and how to create without an end in mind; intuitively. 6 months after beginning, I sold all my acrylics and started experimenting with natural pigments (from minerals and rocks) and home-made paint. The pieces you see here come from my first year of painting.
Early Work
I picked up a paintbrush for the first time a few months before my 40th birthday. I'd just been through one of the most challenging times of my life. I stumbled across the work of Flora Bowley on Instagram and fell in love with the colour and freedom. I signed up for her e-course, Bloom True. There, I learnt about acrylic paints and how to create without an end in mind; intuitively. These pieces come from that period; the first 6 months of my painting adventures.
