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

Using a dip pen, delicate marks are hand drawn over this coloured background, slowly building up the patterns into a strikingly beautiful, white ink overlay.

Inspired by the intricacy of lace, and the beauty around my home, 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 shape, mark or motif that relates to a treasured possession or memory from my life and loves.

It is a slow and intuitive process, it takes time and patience and a steady hand, it fills me up and it is my one true joy.