Contemporary artist and independent art tutor

I make works on paper in drawing and water-soluble media, about parallel cycles of life force, fragility and survival in the body and in nature. Solace in nature and the insufficiency of words are long-running threads in my work.

The work emerges from embodied experience, sense of place, sound and material processes, and a tension between observation/abstraction, beauty/trauma, articulated/unsaid and intuition/ideas.

Over 25 years, my art workshops in Oxford, Derbyshire and online have gained a reputation for adventurous introductions to observational, experimental and abstract processes. I was formerly Visiting Lecturer in Life Drawing at Winchester School of Art, and Visual Arts Therapist at The School of Life, London.

A degree and Masters in Fine Art at Winchester School of Art came after a cross-disciplinary background in literature and psychotherapy. And my work is still informed by Greek mythologies, metamorphoses, what can and cannot be spoken, and ideas about embodied perception (how we interpret visual/auditory/tactile sensory information).

In 2020, during lockdown, I received an Arts Council England grant for the ‘Artists At Home Residency’ through Jelly, Reading, to develop my 'Birdsong Perceptual Field' project.

Solo and duo exhibitions include ronapainting gallery, Oxford, Rookley Manor Studio, Isle of Wight and The Wall Gallery Contemporary Art and The Old Fire Engine House Gallery in Ely.

I’ve exhibited widely in selected exhibitions including with the Royal Watercolour Society at Bankside, the Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours at The Mall Galleries, Bath Society of Artists, Victoria Gallery, Bath, 'CURIOS' in the annual art-house-life event, Ventnor, 'Symbiosis' at Darle and the Bear, Woodstock, and 'Beacon 42' at The Old Lock Up Gallery, Cromford. My work is in school, hospital and university collections in the UK, and private collections around the world.