Layers, colours, shapes and patterns

I’m a professional artist creating vibrant, expressive abstract and semi abstract art filled with colour, rhythm, and line. I work from my home studio in Hastings on the South coast of England.

My work combines intuitive mark-making and considered design. It is sometimes delicate and intricate, other times bold and joyful.

I’m endlessly inspired by the natural world, by the quiet beauty of everyday objects, and by the magic that happens when colour, shape and pattern come together in unexpected ways.

Repetition, rhythm, organic forms and playful complexity often emerge in my pieces, creating layers of interest and a sense of story.

A life long pursuit

I have been working as an artist for more than a decade and am the author of Expressive Sketchbooks: Developing Creative Skills, Courage and Confidence 2020. I didn’t go to art collage, but believe art education is important. My life-long mission is to learn as much as I can about art making and share my knowledge and enthusiasm.

I came back to art making slightly later in life after not creating anything at all in my twenties. I believe everyone can create beautiful art, it’s a natural human instinct to interpret and understand ourselves and the world through creating. Art-making is a skill, developed by practice and time, not an innate talent which we either have of don’t have.

I was recently featured as a case study in the book Outsmart The Learning Curve: How Ordinary People can Achieve Extraordinary Success about career change.