about
art for me is a joyful and healing practice and I love to share this and inspire others
about me
Since moving to Cornwall in 2023 after many years living and working in London, I am developing a different direction in my creative practice which will undoubtedly be inspired by my new surroundings.
Both landscape, light and weather inspire me, and witnessing the ever changing atmosphere creates visual references and responses, which I translate into my paintings and sketches. Through lively and intuitive mark making, working with colour using a variety of mediums, I hope to create a sense of place and evoke captured observations.
Having originally achieved a degree in interior design, I then worked as a commercial interior designer on mainly hotel projects for several years. In 2000, I returned to college to do a postgraduate glass course at Central St Martins, following which I had a studio at Cockpit Arts in Deptford for 14 years. From there, I designed and made residential fused glass commissions as well as specialising in several healthcare commissions where art work is used as part of their healing environment.
Another career twist moved me onto a different creative path, and I undertook some training with a therapeutic arts charity working with children and also volunteered with them until lockdown in March 2020. Subsequently I set up some local after school art classes which I loved, as I wholeheartedly believe in art as a wonderful therapeutic tool for children.
During lockdown, I found a renewed passion for channelling my own creativity into sketching and painting again which also helped me therapeutically during this time. Art for me, is a healing practice and I love to share this and inspire others. I am very fortunate to combine all these acquired skills into my creative practice and will continue to develop my emotional response to my surroundings to capture the colours, beauty and energy of the Cornish landscape in both painting and glasswork.
I hope you enjoy exploring my latest artworks & sketches, and fused glass tableware pieces.
