Born in 1985, I am an artist and illustrator now living in Margate, Kent. I studied for a BA in Fine Art at Winchester School of Art followed by a Masters in Illustration in 2012, and have spent the past decade selling my artworks alongside a career in the creative industries.
I work across a range of media from painting to textiles; common themes being the use of a single illustrative line and stripped back colour palette. My most recent works are predominantly figurative, working from life as much as possible. My drawings are rendered by hand in pen on paper and often created in minutes; many will be discarded before the right image materialises. These are then traced onto fabric and stitched by hand. My figurative pieces depict a variety of ages and body types, aiming to capture and celebrate the energy of the sitters depicted as much as the physical forms.
Simulatanenous to this practise, I have long been collecting ephemeral objects such as receipts, handwritten notes and ticket stubs and reproducing them in textile works. I am fascinated by the idea of celebrating the 'infra- odinary', and with how I can bestow otherwise mundane, mass produced pieces with new significance.