I’m a painter creating expressive landscapes and portraits in acrylic and oils. I’ve painted all my life, alongside a brief career in science and a twenty-year (& counting) career as a factual TV director.
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In my landscape work, I’m interested in the felt experience of being in a place - those moments when a view fills your vision and you feel held by it rather than outside it. I try to bring that sense of immersion into my paintings: not to recreate a scene exactly, but to evoke the energy and presence of standing within it. I spray, smear and scrape paint to relinquish control and push colour, allowing the work to move beyond representation. It’s a kind of sensation that can be hard to hold onto in modern life, and increasingly fragile as the natural world shifts around us - blossom arriving in winter, seasons sliding out of step.
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I have spent many years filming people and animals in landscapes on the frontline of climate change. Seeing elephants searching for food and water during a drought, alongside nomadic pastoralists struggling to find grazing, has profoundly shaped how I see the world and inevitably feeds into my painting. While my documentary films engage directly with these realities, my paintings approach the subject more quietly, meditating on the beauty that still exists.
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For my portraits, I work from life. I’m endlessly curious about people, and I love getting to know them — during a sitting it’s impossible for me to keep quiet. But that conversation is how I find the energy that helps me get to the heart of a person. It allows me to place colour freely and intuitively, building a frame that captures their essence. Whether I’m painting a face or a field, my work is driven by a desire to capture fleeting moments — those transient, often overlooked instants where beauty reveals itself quietly.
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I now live in a 500-year-old cottage in the Surrey Hills, with views stretching all the way to the South Downs. It’s little surprise that since moving here, my work has turned increasingly towards landscape.
2026
Sidney & Berne Davis Art Center, Fort Myers, Florida - Group show 2nd - 30th Jan
Sky Arts Landscape Artist of the Year contestant - to be broadcast February 11th​
Adam's Gallery, Reigate
Artist in Residence - Hektor, Lanzarote (June)
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2025
Finalist Surrey Artist of the Year, New Ashgate Gallery, Farnham
Ruth Borchard Self Portrait Prize longlist
Adam's Gallery, Reigate
Surrey Artists Open Studios
New Life Art Show, Caterham
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2024
Jackson's Award x Artist Support Pledge winner
Artist in Residence - Chateau Orquevaux
Chateau Orquevaux permanent collection​
Women in Art Emerging Artist Prize longlist
Powerful Portraits edit on Artfinder
Surrey Artists Open Studios
Represented by Artiq
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