Artist Statement

I’m happiest near - or preferably in - the sea, where I swim as often as I can. I immerse myself in the multi-sensory experience of it, taking photos underwater, looking and feeling into the abundance of life above and below the waves. Back in the studio, I weave together elements from the photos, memories, and gathered seaweed, to distill those experiences into paintings.

Liquid, dynamic paint layers of varying consistencies are combined with fleeting, but more carefully drawn or carved glimpses of recognisable elements of aquatic life, from the birds overhead to the seaweed below. I challenge myself to create something unexpected in each painting, something that prompts a second look; I work until every piece expresses what feels like a truth about the pleasures and surprises of immersion in wild nature.

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Selected Exhibitions

TBC, The Byre Gallery, Cornwall, August 2024

Driven to Abstraction, Prime Women Artists, The Gallery, Truro High School for Girls, 12 - 22 March 2024

Open 24, The Old Lock Up Gallery, Derbyshire, 10 February - 3 March 2024

Small Works Winter Show, Spring Cheltenham, 8 - 23 December 2023

Good on Paper, The Byre Gallery, Cornwall, 17 November 2023 - 28 January 2024

Opening exhibition at Meadow x Mylo, Mylo Art, Hampshire, June 2023

Spring Show, The Art Buyer, 4 March - 1 April 2023

Winter At the Byre, The Byre Gallery, 19 November - 8 January 2022-3

Sea Level, The Byre Gallery, 2 - 29 July 2022

The Wild Collective, Thrown Contemporary, London, 13 - 29 May 2022

Art of Water VI, James May Gallery, Artsy, 6 May - 29 July 2022

Flora And Fauna, The Art Buyer, Thames Ditton, 16 March - 22 April 2022

Winter at the Byre, The Byre Gallery, Cornwall, 27 November 2021 - 9 January 2022

Winter Exhibition, The Art Buyer, Thames Ditton, 17 November - 22 December 2021

Autumn Exhibition, The Hadfield Gallery, 6 - 28 November 2021

The Best of Both Worlds, The Byre Gallery, 24 July - 12 September 2021

Exhibition in support of Cornwall Air Ambulance, Art Gallery SW, 16 July - 31 December 2021

(Nature in) Lockdown, Floresta, 4 June - 2 July 2021

New Era: Part 1, Art Number 23, 31 March - 28 April 2021

Spring Show, The Art Buyer, 10 - 31 March 2021

Open ISO, The Old Lock Up Gallery, March 7 - 21, 2021

‘Disrupting the Stillness’, The Visionary Projects, November 16 - December 16, 2020

Cornwall Open Studios, August 29 - September 6, 2020

Associates Summer Exhibition, Penwith Gallery, St Ives, July - August 2020

‘A Beautiful Room’, Circa 21 - The Gallery Space, Penzance, July - October 2020

Coast, Hadfield Gallery, Cotswolds, May 18 - June 14 2020

Open ISO, The Old Lock Up Gallery, May - June 2020

Winter Exhibition, Hadfield Gallery, Cotswolds, February 15 - March 1st 2020

Tin Coast Design, Penzance, August 2019 {ongoing}

Associates Summer Exhibition, Penwith Gallery, St Ives, July - August 2019

Spring Exhibition, St Ives Society of Artists, May 2019

Lizard Art Fair, Trelowarren, April 2019

Porthmeor Programme Group Show, Penwith Gallery, St Ives, March 2019

Out of the Blue Gallery, Marazion, June - September 2018

The Toll House Gallery, Lindfield, 2012

JAG Gallery, Brighton, 2011

Open Houses in Brighton and Hove, 2010 - 2011