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About Me

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I am about creating connections. Between people and the natural world. Between the mind, body and spirit. Between people, their stories and their message to the world. Between the emotions and energies that colour the emotion can bring to our lives.

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My art is about allowing the creation and the magic to unfold naturally, in the moment and in an intuitive way that evolves visually before me through both paintings and installations and embracing the unknown by channelling the inspiration from the experiences and knowledge of the world around me. I rarely plan any of my work as I trust myself on an emotional and creative level to create the work that I feel deep within my heart.

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Most of my work is inspired by nature and the outdoor world and this theme is encompassed in the two strands of my recent work, both of which are connected by the stories and messages that each can convey through art.
One strand of this work is inspired strongly by my direct experiences with nature and the outdoor world – pieces such as flowers, wild meadows and landscapes. My recent work has included the beginning of a wonderful year as Artist in Residence with Nene Park Trust which sees over 1.5million visitors annually. My work here includes reflective painting, art engagement activities, art installations and seasonal spectacles.
FLORALIA is a touring art installation that creates a 3d experience of my paintings and evolves to its environment and context each time. Previous showings have included the international FLUX exhibition in London in 2015 and the PECT Green Festival 2015. Floralia is based on the Roman Goddess “Flora” and can be either a fully interactive or purely visual piece.
WEDDING & EVENT PAINTING is where I paint live at these special occasions capturing the emotions, energies, flowers and colours into the essence of the day onto a canvas.
I am also continuing with my second strand and series “Commemorating Significant People, Places and Events in WW1, a hundred years on” with work including THE SKY OF POPPIES – a large scale art installation at Queensgate Shopping Centre. This piece was created by engaging with hundreds of people to commemorate the centenary of the Battle of the Somme with 4.5 million people walking beneath it before it came down.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]THE LONELY ANZAC – an art engagement project and final piece to remember an allied soldier who died far from home and laid at a commemoration event at Peterborough War Memorial.
THE BLANKET OF POPPIES in 2015 included a series of workshops with women to create a commemorative, hand felted blanket. It highlighted the unique strength of women working together with a common purpose, providing a place for healing and the therapeutic sharing of individual stories whilst connecting with this iconic British heroine. Also laid at Peterborough War Memorial following a commemorative event at 7am a hundred years following her execution.
IN FLANDERS FIELDS was an exploration of my love for the symbolic poppy. This has led to regular working trips to Belgium and France which has been a huge part of my WWI work. Some pieces, such as this, were created on location and others were part of the journey of creation – for example, when making THE SKY OF POPPIES, some of the poppies made were taken out and placed on graves. I have also made films for my YouTube channel pf theses travels to help connect people to these places of significance and I was included in 2016 to be the Artist in Residence for the Great War Society during the centenary events of the Battle of the Somme which led to greater insights into this period of our countries history.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]This work is particularly significant to me as I am possibly the only female artist creating such a series and my stark contrast of art to the traditional and dark perceptions of war art offers engagement with a different audience to these stories through art.
My art is a constant journey of discovery, leading to new places and new ideas. There will never be enough time to create all that I want and need to show to the world.
“Each artist follows their own spiritual path. You have to believe that it’s your dream and your life and you have permission to be who you want to be. As an artist you must work and create to let your ideas or energies become reality. You have to make space for the ideas and inspiration to flow to create and develop new work. No one can tell you what to do. You act on your intuition and forge your own path. You need to be tenacious, to work hard, to follow your own true path.”[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]