About

I was born in Lewisham in 1981 and grew up in Catford.  I went to Goldsmith university, where I studied education, specialising in art.

I qualified as a primary school teacher in 2003 and then worked at as a full -time teacher for the next 13 years.  Although I loved teaching, I was finding it impossible to do anything else and had only painted 8 paintings in the period that I worked there.  Eventually in 2016, I decided to leave my job and began painting properly. 

I managed to get my first solo exhibition the year I left teaching at the Ripley Arts Centre in Bromley and have since had several solo exhibitions and been part of many group exhibitions.

I work in my home studio where I generally have about four paintings on the go alongside sketches. When I am struggling to paint, I will often work on pieces in my ‘Look Up’ series, manipulating photographs of trees.   I work primarily in oil and acrylic paints, preferring the physical materials to working on a screen. I have always loved the way you can use paint to create various effects, from using paint opaquely to transparent layering, allowing the colours below to shine through.  Although over the years I have changed subject matter, I have always maintained an interest in the use of colour and light and find it amazing how one person can view a colour so differently from another, and the fact that we have limited colour vision – what are we missing? 

In my works I manipulate colour for this reason, exaggerating it and altering what I see.  Part of what I love about painting and altering colour is the ease at which an image can be changed from one moment to the next, how a change in colour or light can give a completely different feel to the end piece. 

My inspiration mainly comes from the environment, what I’m seeing in the world and how I feel.  I often work from photographs that I have taken. 

I have some of my Climate change pieces in The Hub, Greener and Cleaner Uk, The Hub is located upstairs on the upper mall of The Glades shopping centre, Bromley. They also run great workshops and support a sustainable lifestyle. Find out more: https://www.greenerandcleaner.co.uk/the-hub-from-greener-and-cleaner

I take part in The Catford Arts trail annually https://catfordarts.org/

I run Gallery SE6 with the wonderful Kate Louise Emblen in The Corbett Community Library https://corbettcommunity.org.uk/ where we showcase local artists work for a month, all works are available to purchase. The library is a community space running various classes as well as being a lovely library.

I am always looking for new places to sell my work so if you think my work would go down well at a shop you own/know of, please let me know.