I  am an Artist and Textile designer, living in Hampshire, UK. 

I studied at Chelsea College of Art, specialising in printed Textiles, and have since worked as a Print designer, Textile Artist and Dyer in Fashion, Illustration, Theatre, Interiors and Film.  I was Designer, Head of Studio and Director at Fermoie until 2021 and more recently as Senior Textile Artist for Film. I spent a postgraduate year at the Royal Drawing School, and a year as Artist in Residence at Great Dixter House and Garden. I have been a visiting lecturer at Chelsea College of Art, and taught at The National Theatre, The Royal School of Drawing, Great Dixter House and Garden, and currently teach landscape drawing as a way exploring a spirit of place, at ‘We are Wild’ in Yorkshire and West Dean College alongside my own practice and textile design projects.

A little bit about my drawing  Exploring the landscape, tracing the shapes and rhythms with your eye, and translating it into marks on paper is a way of engaging with a place. Sitting quietly, listening and responding to the light, smells, atmosphere around you.  I love to combine larger spaces with tiny detail that makes up a tapestry of marks that extend beyond the boundaries of a photograph, drawing you closer into the image and world I’m trying to capture.  I find myself looking for shapes that seem to snap together like a stained-glass window and the enfolding spaces between them. My compositions echo the way apples fall off a tree in a reflective circle, ripples, plough lines or the way earth works radiate outward.  My drawing is an action of reverence and connection and a celebration of pattern and the luminosity and spirit that is always pulsing through our landscape.

 2013-2015 Artist in Residence at Great Dixter House and Gardens.  Text from 'Drawing Dixter' catalogue: “It’s exciting to be a part of this cultivated jungle of a garden, a lively community of gardeners, and lovers of the land. Great Dixter is a contemporary British pastoral idyll reminiscent of Samuel Palmer and the artists of the 1930s neo romantic movement.  I am exploring this working landscape in all weathers and seasons through drawing and printmaking.  I’m drawn to the patterns, rhythms and atmosphere of the place. Every corner is like a stage with a play in progress.  I’m endeavoring to capture both the hard work of gardening life and the quiet magic of an empty garden. I’m learning a little bit more about the people and recording not just plants, but a sense of place.”

Residencies: Borgo Pignano, Tuscany, Great Dixter House and Garden, West Dean, Lanacre Barn

Teaching: Chelsea College of Art, Royal School of Drawing, currently running courses at West Dean College and Hampshire Art.

Upcoming workshop dates:

July 15th-18th - West Dean College - Pattern and Rhythm in the Landscape

September 12th-14th -We Are Wild - Land and Water, exploring a sense of place through drawing

October 3rd-6th -West Dean College - Drawing in the Garden, pattern and Place

Currently Exhibiting at The Table Hay-on-Wye 21st June - 12th July