I was born and grew up in an industrial, chemical manufacturing town in Lancashire, and moved to Scotland in 2005 where, following a Summer School in 2009, I studied painting and drawing at Leith School of Art in Edinburgh, followed by a Critical and Professional Development course.

I am drawn to silence, stillness, and solitude, and a sense of these often makes its way into my work.

 A particular inspiration, along with the industrial landscape of my childhood, is that of trees, often presented as solitary figures in an empty landscape, and I am especially interested in a sense of absence, or ‘the space between’, and the feeling of tension this can evoke.

 I work slowly, mainly in oils, and a recent shift to using oil and cold wax is enabling a deeper inquiry into the relationship between medium and subject. I find the malleability of wax allows for a subtle eroding of definition, questioning ideas of presence and non-presence, now and not now.

 I work from my studio in Galloway, and am currently exploring imagined spaces, the solitary human figure, and landscapes of the mind.  

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