ABOUT ME

Hello! Firstly, thank you for taking the time to visit my website - I hope you love what you see as much as I loved drawing each and every one of my portraits to date!

I am an Essex based artist and have lived here all my life and feel very lucky to be surrounded by countryside and plenty of outdoor space! I've always loved art from a young age, however, in my early teens I had a crises of confidence and swapped art college for secretarial college and spent my early adult life as a legal secretary in London. 

Fast forward 17 years and I am now outnumbered 4-1 by my husband, two teenage boys and a gorgeous Cocker Spaniel named Cooper!

It was actually during the first Lockdown of 2020 that my creative journey reignited when I decided to use the slower pace of life to spend some time doing something for myself, and so the sketch pad reappeared after many years of being hidden in the loft!

For ages I wanted to draw my own dog and after initially investing in some watercolour pencils, I produced my first portrait - a watercolour sketch I like to call it, of Cooper! I am very critical of my work (I think if you were to ask any artist they would agree we are our own worst critic!), but on this occasion I was so proud of what I'd achieved that I popped it on my facebook page as my new profile picture. The rest they say....is history.