about*

I was born in Yorkshire, England and grew up in not-exactly-next-door South Africa.
I have lead a somewhat nomadic lifestyle flitting between the rolling hills of rural France, the lakesides of Canada and the dynamic bustle of London. And have finally settled in a beautiful forest in rural Quebec.

I have worked as a publishing designer and artist for twenty-something years and I find the two disciplines mesh quite nicely, even if they seem eons apart. I find one compliments the other in whatever discipline I am working in. My design background works well with designing wood pieces and the photoshop work keeps my head in the painting. The painting side allows me to have a delicate touch when working with digital images. And round and round it goes!

I work with oils, though I been known to mess about with mixed media collage pieces, using paper, acrylic and varnish, creating textures with ink rollers and sometimes painting with earbuds. My first love is portraits and the female form. Much of my work reflects my fascination with light: the effects of colour flares in low light and the reflections on different surfaces in changing weather and light.

Over the past eight years I have been working with wood to make furniture and use paint and stains to enhance the grain of the wood. My partner, an amazing creative talent herself, and I built our house ourselves and it is becoming a rather large work of art in itself with our combination of creative skills.
Turns out that wood and clay are a wonderful combination