With a strong focus on harmonising colours, I love to explore landscapes and still life, reducing and limiting shapes and perspective to achieve semi-abstract works. I’m inspired by the immediate countryside around me as well as working from the many photos I have taken while walking and travelling. Still life work and colour palettes are often inspired by other artists, for example, Vanessa Bell. My work with paint is in both acrylic and oils and I draw using charcoal and pastels.

I took up art seriously once retired, completing a BA (Hons) in Fine Art (1st) with Brighton University in 2023. This part-time degree course at Northbrook College in Durrington proved to be an extremely positive move for me, broadening my views of and approach to art as well as setting me off on a wonderful new journey of discovery.

I have exhibited at Worthing Open 23, Pastel Society 2024 at Mall Galleries, Women in Art Fair 2024 and ‘Here + Now’ at Oxmarket Gallery, Chichester 2024.

I am a Trustee of the charity Arts for Dementia which runs creative workshops for people in the early stages of dementia and their care-givers. This enables me to bring together experience from my current art practice and from my previous career in the charity sector, supporting people affected by dementia.