I live in Horsham, West Sussex, and have a studio in my garden. I would describe myself as primarily a Landscape Painter and I work mainly in oil on canvas or board. The subjects of my work move between the open expanses of the South Downs, Weald Woodland and the Cornish Coast, where I am a frequent visitor.

My inspiration comes from being ‘in nature’ and the heightened awareness of both that moment in time and of times past. I am fascinated by the way memories surface in response to the physical sensations of being in a place: the sights, sounds, smells, and contact. I am interested in both natural and cultivated aspects of the landscape: wildness and the human presence manifest in fields, hedgerows, and ancient roads, and the way in which they connect us to our history.

My work is affected by the changing light, forms, and colours of the landscape through the seasons. I paint while my experience of a place is still fresh, by making sketches and taking photographs which are then developed further through studies exploring composition, light, and colour. The resulting paintings are produced in series and executed quickly to retain the immediacy of the subject with expressive, gestural brush strokes.
Biography: I was born in USA and came to England as a young child. I’ve loved landscape since those early experiences growing-up in the woods, lakes and mountains of Georgia, the rivers and spires of Oxford, the rolling South Downs and coast of Sussex.
I gained a BA Hons from Brighton Art College and went on to qualify as a teacher with a Post Graduate Certificate from Goldsmith’s College, London; I later pursued my second passion for Literature with an MA from Sussex University. I taught Art for 34 years and led an Art Department for 24 of them. I retired in 2020 to pursue my own painting, alongside some teaching and running Art workshops.
As a student my work was awarded a prize in the Annual Exhibition of Painters in Watercolours at the Mall Gallery, and after graduating I was selected for the Sussex Open in 1992 and 1995. Since 2020 I have exhibited in a number of locations in Sussex and Surrey, I was selected for the international juried Art2Life Exhibition in 2021 and received awards in the Association of Sussex Artists Annual Exhibitions in 2021 and 2023. In 2022 my work was selected for the Tebbs Contemporary International Exhibition in London, was long listed for the Visual Arts Open, and was selected for the ING Discerning Eye, Mall Galleries London in 2023.
In 2024 I was winner in the ‘Abstract’ category of Pier Road Gallery Open Call, was selected for the Montague Gallery Summer Exhibition, and the South Downs Open at Petersfield Museum.