I’m originally from Wales. I went to art school in London and Norwich then eventually came to live in Edinburgh about ten years ago, following my sister and looking for bigger mountains. When I’m not making artwork I’m usually walking or biking in the Perthshire hills.

With my studio in Edinburgh's New Town, my work is mainly inspired by the surrounding Georgian architecture. I walk about a lot and take photos, then make my mixed media painting/collages back in my Stockbridge studio (in from the Scottish weather).

Experimenting with different materials and techniques, I’m always looking for new and surprising effects and combinations. I follow no rules regarding materials or mediums - mixing and layering pastels, acrylics, inks, watercolour, crayon and printing ink - drawing with pencil, stick or brush - whatever the composition needs next. I collect a lot of ‘rubbish’ - old paper bags, envelopes, wrapping paper - in an attempt to find the perfect shade of brown or green in recycled materials rather than purposely bought ones. Thanks to the local charity shops, I collect old books and maps and sheet music, so wherever possible I use relevant texts and images to create ‘building portraits’, which have a literary as well as visual story.  

I try to balance my time between commissions and more experimental and developmental work.