I am a collage artist and my work is rooted in the aesthetics of urban boatyards, with their weather-worn detritus and towering structures, drawing on the visual language of forgotten industrial spaces.

I grew up on the east coast of Yorkshire as a happy beachcomber attracted to paint-peeling wooden boats, gaudy plastic scraps and brightly coloured fishing floats. As a child I was free to wander, explore and collect. It is these boatyard memories that became my subject and endless inspiration.

At Art College I was immediately draw to the dense flat colours of silk screen printing, for which I received a commendation. It was on a travel scholarship that I saw Matisse’s cut-outs for the first time; it was the scale of his work, the intensity, the pin holes, crease lines and torn edges that fired my imagination. 

It was this travel award, and losing my father, that set me off on many years of exciting travelling and working overseas, all the time collecting papers and filling my sketchbooks. In Greece and Turkey I worked with sailing holidays and in Auckland, New Zealand I became a freelance illustrator for editorial magazines and book covers.

When secondary school teaching in the UK I developed my collage work and I began to exhibit regularly in Cambridge and London, as well as running art and yoga holidays in the south of France and Italy.

I now work full time as an artist and have gained a reputation as a leader of online sketchbook courses. I am based in Cambridge UK. I have exhibited with with &Gallery, ING Discerning Eye, Bankside Gallery, Scope Basel Art Fair, The Society of Women Artists (twice winning Body of Work Prize) Contemporary Collage Magazine prize winner 2023.Exhibitions and Galleries