Reaching into the interstices of self confounded by the external, 'Environment' examines the carapace of flesh as opposed to the framework of the perceived world. Trauma is openly conveyed as a naked, vulnerable woman clutches her face in seeming grief. Grass prickles her bare foot contradicted by the apparent interior represented by the computer chair and 'window'. Yet the aperture opens only onto another figure, slipping from the canvas, creating an inside outside. The massive nature of her body both binds and enfolds her. Questioning our status as controllers of our own fate and our understanding of the world we inhabit, 'Environment' requests of the viewer that they inhabit and respond to the deep emotional eddies of the imagery.

'Environment' is created from loose and fluid skeins of oil paint producing a curiously organic and tactile surface.

Born in Harrogate, N. Yorks, I  studied Fine Art at St. Martin's School of Art in London where I still live. I work in oil on canvas, and also draw regularly from life, an essential part of my practice. The human face and figure are the main inspiration for my work, and through these subjects, I seek to question assumptions as to identity and gender within an alienating and transformative digital arena. Often there is an implied drama in my compositions, the subjects caught in a moment or predicament. The open-ended nature of these images asks of the viewer to bring their own interpretations and experiences to the picture. My paintings are densely worked in layers of oil paint, and I feel that I build the subject, almost like a sculpture. Although realistic from a distance, in proximity loose brushstrokes  hold the marks of the brush as if still fluid and in movement.

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Prizes include the Ruth Hughes Bursary for the New Light Summer Exhibition 2025, the Platinum Award for the Cancer Feminine, 2022, the Judges Choice Prize in the Chaiya Art Awards 2021 and the Nude Category Award by the Artist Lounge Artist of the Year. In 2018 I won the Holly Bush Emerging Woman Painter Prize. I have also been shortlisted for the John Ruskin Prize 2019, The New Light Art Prize 2020, 2022, and have exhibited in galleries such the Mall Galleries (Ing Discerning Eye, Society of Women Artists), Riverside Studios, the JD Malat Gallery and Crane Court Gallery.  Currently I am a finalist in the upcoming Women’s Art Prize.