About Me

Wherever (wo)men are noble, they love bright colour and wherever they can live healthily, bright colour is given them in sky, sea, flowers and living creatures! Ruskin, On Poppies, from Proserpina.

I’m a lifelong learner and graduated with an MA Illustration

(Distinction) from Falmouth University in 2025, enjoying

every minute of it.

In formative years, I won a highly prized place on the BA

Printed Textiles course at Manchester Polytechnic, focusing on

drawing and creativity, then followed up with Design Processes

and Products at The Open University, eventually earning

my BSc (Hons) degree.

I’ve worked in Publishing on an international scale - mostly on Copyright - and managed an Image Library at a major art museum where the vibrant colours of works from the Pre-Raphaelite movement, fleeting scenic views of the Impressionists and highly detailed studies by Botanical Painters were inspirations. I've also worked freelance for a textile agent and my designs were taken to major trade fairs such as Heimtex in Frankfurt and Surtex in New York.

My current creativity is process driven, combined with analogue materials such as gouache and pen. I follow biophilic principles, ‘biophilia’ meaning ‘love of life’, using natural colours, surfaces and light, often taking works outside for the elements to work their own magic. I make one-off originals and digital reproductions for fashion and homewares - an environmentally clean way of working - proud to carry on tradition as part of a long ancestral line of craftspeople.

Nature, the Fen Landscape and Norfolk Coast provide inspiration, contrasting with my urban Manchester roots. I encourage reconnection with nature, which according to studies, is vital for wellbeing. In this, I identify with the ideals of The Arts & Crafts Movement, set up to counteract the effects of The First Industrial Revolution. Our current situation, The Fourth Cyber Revolution, is similar to that of the first in that this time round, we need respite from electronic media.

In 2025 I exhibited in Spring Fever with West Norfolk Artist's Association at Chequer House Gallery, King's Lynn and Sshhh! Secret Auction at Cromer Artspace. In 2024 I was selected for Sensing Nature at Babylon Gallery, Ely and their Eel Day merchandise. In 2019, I reached the final 12 of 5,000+ entries in Liberty Open Call's search for the best textile design in the UK. As a 2nd year textiles student, I won a competition with prestige manufacturers Fox for my umbrella cover design.