From my experience, loss is not just an ending but a beginning. It creates a space where something new can grow, even if that growth is slow and uncertain. My art reflects this cycle of destruction and creation. It shows how silence and stillness can be powerful, not empty. A Turning Point in My Life Starting to paint again in 2015 marked a significant turning point in my life. Over the past 11 years, I have faced three major losses. Each loss reshaped not only my personal wo

We live much of our lives through screens. We scroll, respond, skim, compare. Images pass us in seconds. Nothing asks us to stay very long. Over time, that pace begins to shape us. We become quicker to react, slower to feel. Surrounded by constant input, we can drift away from ourselves. This is why real, tactile, analogue art matters. A painting or print on a wall does not compete for attention. It does not refresh. It does not disappear with a swipe. It remains and in remai

Originally posted on Women in Arts Network website 17 January 2026. Most artists will tell you their work is personal. But there’s a difference between making something personal and making something that invites others in. One is a closed door. The other is an open window. For our virtual exhibition Birds, hosted on Women in Arts Network, we selected artists who understood that birds aren’t just beautiful subjects they’re carriers of meaning, transformation, the tension betwe

Small linocut scenes shaped by nature, stillness, and change.

I've gathered together a collection of some older artwork, to show the evolution and building blocks of my artistic style as well as...

I didn't know before starting that these two paintings that they would become a pair, it was a bit of a natural evolution leading from one to the other (and then back again, as I'll later explain). I had not painted something big for about two years and I remember wanting to paint something that was for me. Adrift grew to be an expression of how I was feeling about my art at the time. I had been feeling frustrated as a graphic designer, unable to express my own thoughts and i

"From Medieval illustrated manuscripts to Renaissance phantasmagoria, Pre-Raphaelite mysticism to Dada and Surrealism, the mystical,...