I am an interdisciplinary drawing artist, writer, illustrator and curator. My training mostly went down the fine art route because I liked doing my own thing, and wanted to tell my own stories. Yet I was lucky enough to be interested in two technical disciplines throughout my education that proved to be useful for jobs.
 
In the mid 1990's I spent 2 years of a BTEC life casting, which helped me to work in character design and prosthetic makeup in film and TV for quite a time, preceded by many important years selling lipstick and shampoo. Then many years later I started printing, and have only just worked out what those two things have in common. Having taught printmaking for a number of years, I spent much time trying to escape paper entrapment. This is currently working out okay.

I work on my own independent projects, as well as public and community arts commisions.  I studied at Central Saint Martins, Wimbledon School of Art and did a traineeship with the London Print Studio. My masters degree is in drawing, I have a diploma in digital illustration and am a qualified educator. Currently BA Illustration online course leader and a supervisor on MA Illustration at Falmouth University. 

In drawing, I have always returned to the body and the nature of existence. I have come to realise that, for me, maintaining a connection with this is the only path to true authenticity. Therefor, this is the main area of formal and academic research I am most likely to be found engaging in, and as I have been drawing plants for so long it made sense to investigate all of this through plant drawing.