I grew up in the English countryside and I have always loved nature – I could be found at an early age examining things I found in the garden or out in the woods up close, and drawing them, along with mermaids and other things I liked. I also started playing the piano at the age of five. Later, I studied sculpture at Chelsea School of Art London, achieving a BA followed by an MA, and I also studied the piano at Trinity College of Music in London where I received a performers’ diploma. I divide my time between painting, practising the piano, and teaching the piano and violin.Part of my intention is to make unusual the usual; the everyday visual experiences which we all encounter and mostly dismiss as unimportant, not worth a second glance. The works are crafted from moments; those snippets of time and from which I can find a story in the background, such as a dripping bath tap and the light carried in the ripples, a fly on the wall, the fleeting expression on a face, a nameless place. For me, these happenings underpin our existence; big events, highs and lows, come and go but the insignificant and fleeting remain and repeat, like a constant hum in the background.
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