About me.

Born in North Wales, in 1982, I dream of being an established, contemporary  artist and illustrator. I graduated from Bangor University in Wales with a BSc 2:1 Hons in biology in 2003. My pictures are either pencil drawings or watercolour paintings.

My art is figurative, and my pictures have bold definite lines that carry a sense of simplicity. For me they are sensual, and passionate, each with their own narrative, telling a different story or feeling. I do not like to explain my work, how I have drawn or painted a picture is how I want it to be. How each person sees and interprets that  picture and its story will be different, and so will be what they feel, and take away from it. This is after all why art is so subjective, and to me so vital.

My work has grown out of my life, its challenges and experiences. I like to comment on human nature, more specifically how a woman can be herself; sensual, strong, and remain feminine, and how we all interact with each other, nature, and its amazing diversity using our instinct and intuition.

My own artistic preferences include the expressionists, the romantic and the art-nouveau. One of my favourite artists is Paul Gauguin, whose art to me typifies the expressionist artists desire to personify their work, so making it passionate and intense. Another, the art-nouveau illustrator, Kay Nielsen, whose illustrations are an escape into another world. Then René Lalique whose romantic ideals are apparent in his attention to detail and the truthfulness to nature in his sketches and jewellery. I also like reading, I love H.E.Bates and how he portrays life so realistically, particularly in his short stories in their “Seven by Five” compilation, and “Fair Stood the Wind for France”,  one of the most moving romances I have ever read.