Education & Career
I studied BA (Hons) Fine Art at Falmouth University. I graduated in 2009 and started work in hospitality, my dedication to this career meant that I had little time to practice art. I opened my own specialty coffee shop in Frome in 2019, the pandemic forced businesses to temporarily close a year later and I used this opportunity to start painting again. Due to illness I closed the shop in 2024 and made the commitment to being an artist.

About me
Aged 5, I was diagnosed with cancer and I became acutely aware of my own mortality. It quickly made me affirm life the way it is, even when it hurts or is uncomfortable. In the hospital I took refuge in listening to music and taking part in art therapy. It allowed me to understand my thoughts and translate what I was unable to formulate into words. It helped me embrace what exists outside the body as an infinite and creative universe.
When I returned to school, I had little interest in formal education; I was more interested in daydreaming and using my imagination.
William Blake’s eloquent words better summarise what I am unable to: “If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is, Infinite. For man has closed himself up, till he sees all things thro’ narrow chinks of his cavern.”

About my work
I am interested in how we perceive the world around us, the interpretation of our sensory information and the assumption that our perception equals reality. I use shapes and colours that function as signs or symbols because I am interested in the tension between the real and the abstract.
I am interested in the painting being an object in real space and the way that the paint sits on the canvas, refusing to be read as a total illusionistic space.