Thank you so much for being here.

I have spent most of my life following the rules. The kind of rules that turn ‘good girls’ into hard-working, multi-tasking, people-pleasing, exhausted women. Then I hit midlife and meno madness. A madness that tips you upside down, holds your feet and shakes you hard. So hard you sometimes feel like you’re not going to make it. It shook all those rules right out of me. Perhaps this madness is the price of my freedom.

Through painting I am rediscovering myself. I am learning how to follow my curiosity and trust my intuition. My work is inspired by a passion for the natural world and for the magical, often unexplainable parts of life. I am inspired by colour and light, freedom and joy, energy and hope.

In calligraphy, the line is considered to hold the creators energy of being. This is how painting feels to me - a transference of self (beliefs, feelings, emotions, memories) onto canvas through the hand and the brush.