about*

I was born in Yorkshire, England and grew up in not-exactly-next-door South Africa. Since then I have lived and worked across rural France, London and Canada, and have finally come to rest in a beautiful forest in rural Quebec. With my dog who has yet to meet a swamp she didn’t like.

I have worked as a publishing designer and Art Director for over thirty years, and somewhere along the way picked up a paintbrush and never really put it down. The two disciplines feed each other in ways I didn’t expect — my design eye sharpens my painting, my painting gives me a delicate touch with digital images, my woodworking informs how I think about design. And round and round it goes.

I work primarily in oils, though I have been known to mess about with mixed media — paper, acrylic, ink rollers, varnish and occasionally earbuds. My first love is portraits and the female form, and much of my work is a conversation with light — colour flares in low light, reflections on different surfaces, the way everything shifts when the weather changes.

I have been making wood furniture for the past eight years, because apparently there are only so many hours in a day and I just can’t seem to respect that.