‘I work with oils, acrylics, inks, watercolours, collage, and drawing materials. Painting, collaging and sanding, creating layers, offers a sense of process and relationship. Through colour and gestural marks, I work intuitively, seeking a language of abstracted rhythm, vitality and energy.’
My art practice has developed alongside my clinical practice as a nature-based arts therapist, trauma therapist and creative supervisor, and through previous roles and positions, in particular arts workshops for young people, clowning (Art of Fooling) and as an artist model.
Over the last six years, I have turned my creative energies (that up until this point, often been channelled into facilitating creativity in others) towards my own art making and set up my art practice in my home studio. Having this space to get messy and dig deeper into my process has evolved my art.
I am largely self taught in my art. I did art at school and college, including history of art. I have attended many life drawing groups. I am supported in my development by an artist mentor and artist communities I am a member of.
I live and work in the wooded and craggy hills of Derbyshire (UK) with my family and, now elderly dog. My time is shared between my clinical practice and my art practice, both inspiring and informing the other.
