Artist | Storyteller
Hedgerow Enthusiast
​​You'll typically find me in the studio, in the woods or more likely tangled in a ball of wool on my latest crochet side quest. Originally from Bournemouth, with deep roots in the Dorset landscape, I’m now based in Gloucestershire, raising two boys who climb trees, dig up fossils and know that magic is real. I've never lost my own childhood sense of wonder. I still coo over robins, forage in hedgerows and passionately believe that our stories matter!
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HOW I GOT HERE
My background is in illustration for books and magazines, later focusing on print-making and sculpture. I was a lecturer for 12 years specialising in Print, Illustration and Drawing & Applied Arts and went on to spend a decade as the Education Officer at Prema Arts Centre in Gloucestershire.
Motherhood required me to step back from my artistic practice for a season, as it does for so many women. Watching my kids build their tiny worlds in our garden, I realised I'd come full circle. Exploring the world with my boys connected me back to the child I once was, lying in long grass imagining beetle-sized adventures. I was ready to let the magic back in.
In 2024, I took a leap and accepted a commission to design a 12-metre mural on our local village shop. I used steel and wood silhouettes of local flora and fauna to create art that lives in the real world — wild, three-dimensional and weathering through the seasons.
As a result of the success of the mural, people reached out wanting pieces of that magic for their own gardens and much to my delight and surprise, a new chapter of my art was born.
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WEAVING A NOTICING SPELL
My work is a love letter to noticing what’s around us, the magical in-between spaces, wildlife and seasonal shifts. I invite people to see the hedgerows not as a boundary but as a threshold space teeming with life, holding centuries of folklore and stories.
Hedgerows are like nature's corridors, vital networks connecting fragments of wild space. They shelter countless species, provide food and passage for wildlife, and in Gloucestershire these ancient hedgerows face constant pressure.
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Through my work I'm weaving what I call a noticing spell, helping people reconnect to the wonder that lives at the margins of our lives and really see the wildlife thriving right alongside us.
