AN ARTISTIC VOYAGE

into documenting memory, finding truth, and expressing the hope of the journey

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WELCOME

Welcome! Discover my paintings, exploring raw self-expression and impressionistic graffiti, and taking inspiration from the contrasts between Nature and the urban landscapes surrounding us.

I’m an abstract artist working in acrylics, exploring joy in colour, capturing the beauty of the wild and the unseen pattern of the seemingly mundane. I’ve travelled globally to discover new styles of art, been exhibited across the world, led corporate artistic projects for Arthouse Unlimited, and I became one of Liberty’s Open Call Winners in 2019.

LIBERTY’S OPEN CALL

In September 2019, Liberty launched their mission to find the UK’s next big artistic talent, offering artists and designers the unmissable chance to have their work immortalised in an iconic Liberty fabric, working alongside the Liberty design team.

My painting ‘Graffiti Summer’ was selected as one of the winning entries, and became available to Liberty customers in Tana Lawn cotton and satin silk fabrics, in three complimentary designs and multiple colourways. I was also featured in the BBC documentary One Day That Changed My Life as they showed my art process and story along the way.

In my entry to the Open Call, I wrote, “This picture has taken me on a journey, more so than many others. The multiple layers painted over and over, and some scrubbed away, have given me great pleasure and delight — but also pain and awkwardness. I feel that these highs and lows and uncertainties have created a certain depth within the painting. It has its own story within and I like that it has a raw expressive energy, while at the same time there are areas of delicate beauty, in colour and tiny detailing.”

As my fabric enters the Liberty historical archives, and appears in the 2021 Bloomsbury book The Fundamentals in Textile Design, it’s been a highlight of my career so far.

Paintings to dream into, inspiring hope & happiness

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Oct 15, 2023

TIME OUT: Reflect, Replenish and Paving the Way

Oct 15, 2023

It’s the start of October already, we have finally moved on from the heatwave and the kids are back at school, college and Uni, I’m delighted that mine have both left school. No more phone calls and detentions, hurray! One daughter on an apprenticeship and the other is at uni …. Phew.

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EP 37: Johannesburg, South Africa: Hug a Cub, Art & Conservation: 22:09:2000

Sep 22, 2022

Today, I don’t seek art, instead I seek Johannesburg’s wild animals. I hug a cub and seek South Africa’s finest wild animals at The Pilenesberg National Park. So many years later realise how art engages with us, shouting it’s plight to save our endangered animals.

Sep 22, 2022

EP 36 : London, UK : APOCALYPSE, Beauty & Horror - Is This The End? : 18/09/2000

Sep 18, 2022

I take a trip to London to the Royal Acadamy and catch the crest of the wave as it begins to fall. This is Saatchi decade’s follow up show to ‘Sensation’, Apocolypse, Beauty and Horror in Contemporary Art, ironically before much of it disappears for good, up in smoke.