A multidisciplinary artist my work is informed by my fascination with the natural world and the relationships between plants and people. With ongoing interests in ethnobotanical investigations, I produce work with many layered considerations and narratives including environmental, spiritual, symbolic, and/or cultural.
I now focus on drawing, painting and photography.
I engage with plant material accessed from my local landscape, National Plant Collections, Physic Gardens and Community Projects. My work is often informed by walking my local topography through the seasons and reflecting on the plants I come across, and how they change during the year, exploring notions of home, the passing of time, temporality and impermanence.
I also get a lot of satisfaction in making some of my own art materials, especially inks and paints, using minerals and plants I collect locally .
My Art Practice has been informed by over twenty years working as a Horticulturalist, a journey which began when I rented a studio at Hackney City Farm in east London and started volunteering in the garden. Going on to manage organic/biodynamic market gardens and herb workshops in therapeutic settings in both Community Gardens and City Farms.
I exhibit widely and was awarded a Silver Gilt medal in 2022 for my ‘Seeds of Hope’ paintings at the prestigious RHS Botanical Art Show, Saatchi Gallery, London.
I have two paintings as part of the Sir Cedric Morris Florilegium collection archived at Gainsborough House in Sudbury, and am excited to also be exhibiting my painting of Benton Argent as part of Sara Cooks RHS Chelsea Flower Show Exhibit in 2025.
I am a member of the East Anglian artists group the Iceni Botanical Artists Society, and the art collective - Artworks who exhibit annually at Blackthorpe Barn in West Suffolk. I am a former member of the Chelsea Physic Garden Florilegium and the Bedgebury Pinetum Florilegium.
