I am a teacher with a life-long interest in children as artists. Over the years my own creative developments have been enhanced by inspirational teaching at Sunningwell School of Art, Ruskin College of Art and most recently I have completed the year long Porthmeor Programme at St Ives School of Painting.

I have combined my own developing art practice with teaching and now run art sessions for children.

I use mixed media to create paintings that oscillate between abstraction and figuration. Walking provides the inspiration for works that suggest visual journeys and a narrative response to the landscape. As I work, I focus, not on the expansive landscape of the Chilterns, but the more secretive, hidden tracks that traverse beech woods, fields and villages. I am drawn to fragments that catch the eye; pools of light, unusual forms or incongruities and juxtapositions in the countryside. What I see ignites my imagination and evokes memories and emotions.

These fragments come together as new worlds and hopefully invite the viewer to lean in a bit closer and find aspects that resonate with their own stories.