I was born in Glasgow and spent most of my life there. After a few years working in London, I retired to Hove in 2014.

I did an Art Foundation course at in Brighton Met and rediscovered my love for painting. I obtained my diploma with distinction in 2016.

Several short drawing and painting courses followed but now my art practice needed a bigger challenge.

The part-time Fine Art degree course at Northbrook College in Goring perfectly suited my life and in 2017 I joined a cohort of mature students there. Those 5 years were a happy, productive time and I continued to develop my own style of working. In 2022 I graduated with First Class Honours (A*).

Since graduating I continue to draw regularly, but my true passions are colour and paint. I have experimented with various mediums and surfaces, and at the moment I work with collaged paper, particularly Japanese washi paper, which I love. I have a big collection of painted and stained papers, all waiting to be cut and used in a finished work.

My work involved exact legal concepts and accurate calculations and I have been unable to escape my long-held need for precision. I see objects in terms of straight lines, geometric shapes and clearly defined colours. I have moved from representational into abstraction, but there are still echoes of familiar objects.

The mood of my work is inspired by photographs of my travels. I have been able to visit Japan twice, and I try to capture something of the shapes and colours of that very particular country. I visit Italy every year, and seek to bring something of its character in my pieces.

My influences include the abstract Concrete artists in Brazil in the 1960s, in particular Heli Oiticica, Lygia Clark and Lygia Pape. I also greatly admire contemporary artists like Hanne Borchgrevink in Norway and Gary Hume in the UK, who have shown me the possibilities of abstracting from the physical entity.