I have enjoyed arts and crafts all my life but have finally decided, fully retired and having fewer commitments, to take art and myself seriously.
Having previously worked as a garden designer, I returned to art with a heightened understanding of immersive three-dimensional environments but expressed in a neat and graphic style. I struggled initially to become a freed-up-messy-have-a-go at everything mature Foundation Diploma Student but succeeded passing with Distinction. Inspired and confident to take it further I committed to full-time study with the Open University earning myself a Bachelor of Arts Degree, with First Class Honours.
During those three years of intense research and learning I studied painting, sculpture, printing and alternative media, growing both as a person and as an artist. I developed a strong interest in photography, film, sound - the most immersive and sensory of art forms.
Of late I have renewed my lifelong interest in textiles, rediscovered mono print and collage and am now enjoying a mixed-media expressionist approach to making art. I work intuitively, allowing things to develop slowly, one action leading to ideas for the next. Often it is all about the detail and in this I aim to capture emotion and the spirit of a thing.
