I paint from a ‘feeling space’, exploring the way in which our psychological atmosphere is created and felt. I translate this emotional response onto the physical surface on the canvas.

Growing up in Falmouth, Cornwall, my childhood was spent in the countryside, on the beach and immersed in the sea and this has deeply influenced my work. As a Dorset based artist, I work in acrylics, watercolour, oil pastel and ink and my body of work is a profound emotional response to the world around me, both landscape and seascape. A memory is evoked, both of the image and its inner emotional resonance and is expressed through the use of colour and bold mark making. Energy charging, strong brush strokes. Layers of paint are scraped back, more paint applied. This process depicts the evolution of nature and the human spirit. Our combined interconnected vulnerability. The fragile threads that bind us.

Intuitive, expressive mark making and energy through colour, my paintings are a reflection of how I feel about the world and I want the viewer to feel as deeply as I do.