I am a contemporary artist based in the riverside town of Bewdley, Worcestershire - the heart of England! I work from my home studio, which is a little chaotic and crammed with my beloved vintage jugs and clutter I pick up along the way.

 Art gives me the space to be me, a messy, mildly chaotic rule-breaker.

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This is my authentic self; I paint what I want when I want, and how I want. Painting this way nourishes me, and I paint passionately, often hours into the night. I do not plan or sketch, I just play. When I play there is no expectation, I just allow it to happen. Beauty is there somewhere, and once it reveals itself I can start to compose my abstracted scenes from everyday life, and this is what brings me joy. Painting simple life.

I'm hugely inspired by rule-breaking watercolour artist Shirley Trevena and the late contemporary artist Mary Fedden. Both continue to reassure me that my path is where I wish it to go, there are no rules. 

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I teach that painting should bring happiness and joy, why else would you do it? I hope that I inspire others when I create and when I teach my classes.