All my life I've been following a thread. I can't describe the thread, but it's always been there - pulling me away from dysfunctional environments, pushing me forward, towards a deeper engagement with the mystery of things.
I travelled, I taught, I studied; I rebelled, I conformed; I got sick, I got well. But always, at the heart of it, the mystery of being a small human in a vast, interpenetrating world.
I've lived and worked in England, Scotland, Switzerland, Italy, India and Australia. I studied art at St Martins School of Art, London, and later did a degree at SOAS, London University, in Indian Art & Architecture; carrying out field work in South India at three sacred sites, as well as researching a dissertation entitled ‘Symbol and Reality: the Embodiment of the Divine in the Sacred Images of India’. I also have a postgraduate degree in Education, and was an academic writer for ten years, publishing a number of papers exploring the implications of complexity/ dynamic systems theories for research in the Social Sciences.
I returned to full-time image-making in 2008.
In 2013 I had a solo show, Wild Life, as part of the first Stirling Fringe Festival. There were 55 paintings, interspersed with poems by Em Strang and Jamie Reaser. Rachel Amey wrote a performance piece for the show and performed it twice a day. I did live sandpainting, and invited my visitors to do it too. In 2017 some students from Stirling University made a video about my work.
You can buy prints and cards at Cahoots in Portobello, from my Etsy shop, and directly from me.