I am a York based contemporary painter, working in an expressive semi abstract/abstract style.
My work often features the North Yorkshire Moors, Yorkshire, Northumberland, abstract flowers & still life. Working primarily in acrylics & mixed media (such as charcoal, oil pastel and water-based crayons and pencils), I love to capture light and atmosphere, preferring to get the ‘sense’ of a picture rather than relating too much detail. Texture and colour are important to me in my work and I like to build up varying textural and tonal contrasts using a brush and palette knife. My work has become more abstracted over the years and I enjoy experimenting with opaque and translucent layers, sometimes incorporating collage and print.
I grew up in North Wales and studied Fine Art at the North Wales Institute of Fine Art in Wrexham but have spent most of my adult life in Yorkshire.
My work has been exhibited widely throughout Yorkshire, including a solo show at the Helmsley Arts Centre and exhibitions with the Great North Art Show, Ripon Cathedral (2015), Ferens Art Gallery, Hull (2018), LFA Showcase 2019 (Huddersfield Art Gallery), & LFA Dean Clough 2018/19). My work has been showcased in the International Artist and Art & Color 365 magazines.
I have exhibited regularly with the Society of Women Artists at the Mall Galleries for several years.
I was delighted to have been elected a Member of Leeds Fine Artists in 2018 and in 2023 was elected a Member of the Society of Women Artists.
