I have been drawing and sketching since I was a small child, it was always my favourite thing to do, like most children, you are completely free and this age and the self concious chatter and awareness has not set in. I would spend hours just drawing completely oblivious to whether it was any good or whether it mattered. I just loved doing it. I would even send my pictures to The Queen and get polite letters back from her Lady’s in Waiting, I had a thing for England at a very young age.

As the years went on I loved art at school and it was my favourite subject. Portrait painting at home was how I would spend afternoons after shcool. However, that self awareness had crept in and I no longer had the freedom with it, suddenly ‘was it good’ seemed to be the most important aspect as to whether it mattered. This pressure stayed with me and even after choosing to go to the National Art School in Sydney, Australia after high school, I was not ready for the intensity, nor had the maturity to commit myself properly, so I left and attended UNSW to complete my Bachelor of Art in Photography.

A career in photography production ensued and a move to London, this led me down various rabbit holes before ending up working in Luxury Travel Marketing. However, deep down a nagging voice had emerged, quietly at first and then gradually louder and louder, saying ‘you are meant to be making something’, you are meant to be creating, this is what you should be doing with your life. And so I left London, and spent some time travelling Australia, working in the Daintree Rainforest and driving across Australia to discover a new path and new purpose - making art. It took a while but here I am finally painting just because it makes me happy, and that is a good enough reason for me.

Re-Discovery

Art & Vulnerability

Pug & The Seaside