Wildfisch

Since 2017 I have been rekindling a love of drawing, painting and making which is proving to be both challenging and rewarding!

My life-long passion for wild swimming has inspired semi-abstract watercolour paintings to express the experience of cold water immersion. Painted al fresco and on location, incorporating sometimes sand, seaweed and using the water from the sea or river where I swam. Most of these paintings I created in stunning North Devon, however in future I'd like to explore the project more further afield.

I spend a lot of time outside in the woods or gardens where I will take a sketchbook and draw leaves, flowers, seeds and trees. I've always had a magpie's eye for collecting nature items and I'm now exploring the idea of using my foraged finds to make natural inks and paints. 

I graduated with a 2nd class honours degree in Fine Art from Staffordshire University in 1999. Since then I've travelled a lot, become very sporty and studied hoticulture - no time to make "art" although gardening has been my creative outlet for many years and I see the garden as a living, breathing, ever evolving art installation that the gardener is part of. We feed the soil, tend the plants, endure te elements and in turn enjoy the fruits of our labour!

Nature has always inspired my art and I believe as artists (especially women) we have a strong voice in these most challenging times. I'm interested in Ecofeminism  and I wrote my dissertation on Ecological Art.

I'm inspired by the work of Ana Mendieta, Andy Goldsworthy and more recently Kurt Jackson, Anita Reynolds and Frances Hatch.