All my work is a product of drawing from observation and of an accumulation of looking at and being within an environment. My stimulus is that direct emotional engagement; I try to be completely open, empty even, to feeling what I see.

I trained as a painter, but for some time have worked mainly in printmaking, which I love for its potential for mysterious and vibrant markmaking and for the physicality of the ‘hands on’ processes; and also for the works’ capacity to become itself, to take on its own life – to surprise me.

For many years I have found the combined rhythms of walking, looking and drawing an essential; three years ago I spent two months walking alone along the pilgrim route, the Camino de Santiago, 500 miles from the French Pyrenees to Santiago de Compostela in NW Spain, making drawings every day.

A current project involves experimenting with a form of ‘intaglio’ from plaster blocks of imagery of the field, trees and hill across from the studio, using clay dug up from that field and hill.

I studied at The Slade School of Art for my DFA, followed by an MA in painting at the Royal College of Art and an MA in Printmaking at Camberwell College, University of the Arts, London. I recently completed the Postgraduate Diploma, ‘The Drawing Year’, at The Prince’s Drawing School.

I have taught life drawing at St Martins School of Art, Morley College of Art and Heatherley School of Art. For a number of years I combined my own practice with my position of Director at Hodge & Partners Limited, an international award winning corporate design consultancy.