I grew up in Yorkshire, spending as much time as possible outdoors - drawing, painting, and absorbing the textures of the countryside. That pull towards landscape and towards making has never left me.

I completed my Graphics degree at Middlesex University in 1984 and have since built a successful design career alongside my painting practice, working from my home studio in Arnside, Cumbria, on the edge of the Lake District.

My paintings begin in a place most of us know, that feeling of being uncertain, unsettled, not quite at home in yourself. Shyness, self-doubt, a disconnection from your own inner world. But they don't stay there.

Through painting and landscape, I find my way through that. Moorlands, estuaries, and open ground become places where emotional noise begins to settle and something quieter and truer can emerge. I walk, observe, and sketch until I've absorbed the rhythms and scale of a place, not to record what it looks like, but to capture how it feels. That wildness and openness is what I'm after.

In the studio, I work with layered brushstrokes, bold colour, and expressive marks that carry the energy of open space. I deliberately push against balance and harmony, leaving tension, rawness, and irregularity in the work. These aren't accidents, they are the resistance and defiance that run through everything I make.

The result is paintings that trace a movement from hesitation into embodied confidence. Gradual, physical, and felt. A reminder that you have the power to find your way back to yourself, and that you always did.

Artistic Process Statement

My process begins with immersion in the landscape, walking, observing, and sketching to absorb the textures, rhythms, and expansiveness of the natural world. I’m less interested in literal representation and more in capturing the feeling of wildness and freedom that the land holds.

In the studio, I work with layered brushstrokes, bold colour contrasts, and expressive marks that reflect the energy of open space. I often push against balance and harmony, deliberately allowing tension, irregularity, and rawness to remain on the canvas. These qualities echo the resistance and defiance that underpin my themes.

For me, painting is an act of embodiment. The physical gestures, the layering of paint, and the decisions to leave some marks raw or unfinished all become metaphors for living without restriction. Each work is both a landscape and a declaration, a space where untamed freedom is made visible.

These paintings begin in a place most of us know, that feeling of being uncertain, unsettled, not quite at home in yourself. But they don't stay there.

Through painting and landscape, I find my way through that, back into presence, clarity, and a sense of my own ground. I return again and again to moorlands, estuaries, and open ground, places that hold you quietly while something inside shifts.

When one of these works lives in your home, it carries that movement with it. A daily reminder that you have the power to find your way back to yourself, and that you always did.

Recent Recognition

2025 - Selected for The Other Art Fair, London.

2025 - Longlisted for VAA Artist of the Year.

2024 - Longlisted for Women in Art Prize.

2024 - Accepted as a wild card on Landscape Artist of the Year.

2023 - One of her works, High Tarn, was selected for the RBA Bicentennial Exhibition at the Mall Galleries.