About

I have a passion for cooking and spent a large part of my life as a pastry chef, which in itself is creative. Then after many years of wishing I had continued with some kind of art I took a Design degree and specialised in Architechtural Glass, which I love. My speciality was surface manipuation with sand blast and acids. The beauty of the colours and clean lines were always the most important part of my glass work. Unfortunatly I have been unable to continue with this line of work for many reasons, but by then I took on a new and more important job as a mother. At the time my husband worked away a great deal and for a couple of hours a week I became an adult and took a painting class for a few weeks, we were soon to move, so it was just that a few weeks. I may add I was terrible. All of you out there who are struggling to paint take note. I didn't like it and didn't touch it again.

Eight years later, I decided to give it another go myself. I was still terrible. Then I realised that I didn't like the subject, landscapes. So I would try my hand at wildlife, I have spent most of my childhood years drawing them, so why not paint as an adult. Bingo!

I love it, I'm improving all the time, and after two and a half years painting, I'm a self taught Wildlife and Natural world artist determined to make it work.

My family and I live in Nottinghamshire on the cusp of Derbyshire in a little village which is a complete contrast to where I was born in a seaside city in the north east.

We are fortunate to live in an area with an abundance of wildlife right on the doorstep, quite litraly. From our extended family of pheasants that come several times a day to feed, to the hedgehogs, squirrels and foxes that I frequently fall over outside the kitchen door. The hours that my family and I have been kept awake by the tooty owls, and awoken by the magpies, and persistently kept that way by our resident 'main man' pheasant, the blackbird squabbles and the wrens that are in training for the Guinness book of records for the loudest voice from the smallest bird. But underneath the strawberry theives, the pea pinchers, the dust bathers, the little parcel leavers and the raspberry gobblers, I feel honoured to be trusted by many but inspired to paint by all.

Who could ask for more (although more strawberries left for the children would be nice).

Captive breading programs are an essential part of life now and I have been lucky enough to see many big cats in just these conditions, I am unable for the time being to visit these animals in the wild, but support for all breading programs is of extreme impotance. I hope in the future to do more for them. I am releived to say, they, are not in the garden.

I hope you enjoy looking through my work, please come back again as I hope to be attending many events in the future and will try to keep my site up to date so as to let you know where I will be showing.