"I began drawing at three on my mother’s hippy farm, an early escape from the chaotic energy of 1970s counterculture. Art remains my way of creating allegorical, dreamlike worlds that explore beauty, memory, and emotion.
My work often examines the ‘feminine’ through a nostalgic lens, producing psychologically charged representations of human experience. Fascinated by personal stories and reimagined fairytales, I blend reality and fantasy to create strong visual narratives. Beneath the surface, tension arises as I explore the female figure as both symbol and subject, questioning the politics of gender, art, and power.
When immersed in painting, I travel mentally through the enchanted worlds of the French Romantics, the British Bucolic, and the Renaissance. From these journeys, I return physically exhausted yet creatively renewed, my female protagonists reimagined through a process of imaginative time travel.
By reinterpreting neoclassical form, my work allows the grotesque and the beautiful to coexist, reflecting sexuality, humour, and death. Rooted in my experience as a contemporary female artist, it draws upon the Gothic, the natural world, and the enduring mystery of the unknown."