About

Following an early career in retail management, marriage and raising two children, I achieved a Designer Maker degree (BA Hons) in my mid-thirties.

By that time I had already been working successfully with paints on silk and, following my formal studies, my interests expanded across various media and subject matter.

Many of my inspirations stem from my detailed macro photography of the natural world. I am fascinated by the wealth of colours and textures nature provides, having lived near Dartmoor for many years. Movement, texture and colour are the main elements I look for in my landscape painting. Natural patterns with their wonderful colour mixes always excite and surprise me. My love of flowers is apparent in the detail of my  floral portraits.

I have moved into my own studio in the wonderful grounds of Cockington Court, Cockington Village,Torquay , Devon. TQ2 6XA

Galleries and shops selling my Greeting cards/Gift wrap and Prints.

Aromatika Totnes.

Cockington Gallery, Torquay.

Its Divine, Chagford.

The Bessemer Gallery

Exhibitions-Shows-Galleries

Country Living Spring Fair, Design Centre, Islington London 2012

Solo show-Frames and Boxes   2007

Art Rooms’, Totnes  six weeks 2008

The Great Create’ Agatha Christie Holiday Home 2008

Rose-moor’ Summer Exhibition – 2008 – 2009

The Tea Rooms, Cockington Court.    2009

Galleries

The Bessemer Gallery. 2011

‘The Whistlefish Galleries’   2010

Frames and Boxes, Newton Abbot, Devon 2008 -

‘Kaya’ Gallery, The Barbican, Plymouth 2009 -

Diana’s Gallery, The Stable-yard, Cockington Court, Torquay 2010

My floral picture ‘Peony and Star Gazer Lily’ has been used as a front cover of ‘Cockington Trust Magazine’

Muse Magazine

The Herald Express

Devon Life

The Mid Devon Advertiser.