BIOGRAPHY

I have always loved to express myself through visual arts, memories of my childhood in rural Hampshire often include a pencil or paint. This continued into higher education where I attended the University of Leeds to study Fine Art. However, I couldn't really find my 'voice' as an artist and was deeply frustrated that I couldn't make work I loved. So, I left art behind for a few years. I had children, we moved to Derbyshire and I became a teacher.

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But the nag of creating was unavoidable and never left.

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I was asked by my in-laws to draw a dog they wanted to gift to some friends and I found, to my joy, that I adored trying to represent the soft fur and deep meaningful eyes. Then, I discovered pastel pencils- that with practise, I could could get the details I wanted with a vivid colour I loved. I was hooked.

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Now, I am enticed the the complexity of who we are as beings and the world that exists (whether in reality, our memories or our dreams) around us and the one we have created around us. I want to stretch my arms through the nostalgia, the hopes, the failings, the things that were or might have been, and reflect that in my work. I want to tell a story,