I love to work in layers, building up texture and creating depth through paper, paint, ink, text, drawing..and deliciously saturated colours.

Using a dip pen, I make delicate marks over these coloured backgrounds, slowly building up the marks into patterns creating a strikingly beautiful, white ink overlay.

Inspired by the intricacy of lace, and the beauty in and around my village, you may notice floral elements taken from the hedgerows, stone shapes from a drystone wall, lines depicting fence posts and railway tracks, and ivy growing up a tree trunk. Hidden in plain sight may be a shape, mark or motif that relates to a treasured possession or memory of my life and loves.

It is a slow and intuitive process, which takes time and patience and a steady hand, and brings me immense peace and joy.