BIO

Hi! I am a 31-year-old independent artist from Scotland. Leaving UAL early gave me the freedom to spend six years working privately, dedicated to developing my own visual language and distinct process through sustained experimentation, observation and intuition.

Living with endometriosis and chronic pain has profoundly shaped my creative practice. Art has given me a place to continually adapt, reclaim agency, and reconnect with myself when other parts of my life have felt beyond my control. The intimate scale of my work grew from that adaptation. Chronic illness has altered what my body can do, but I refuse to let it determine the limits of my inner life. 

Alongside making art, I've kept a daily journal for more than a decade, as well as a separate dream journal. I use writing as a living conversation with myself, returning to past words to recognise patterns and understand change. 

STATEMENT

My practice is nourished by close observation of the patterns and cycles of the natural world, alongside an enduring interest in the space where psychology and spirituality meet. My work is deeply informed by Carl Jung, particularly his ideas surrounding the unconscious, individuation and active imagination. A year spent engaging with art therapy further developed my interest in intuitive image-making as a means of psychological exploration, and in the ways unconscious material can surface through creative practice. 

 Each work begins as a moment of discovery followed by response. In my current series, the resulting images are characterised by vibrant fields of colour and movement, often carrying a dreamlike quality and traces of a narrative. They feel suspended somewhere between landscape, memory, and inner terrain. Light is a recurring presence, appearing as a glow or scattering of luminous marks that heighten the sense of atmosphere. Every piece also contains a presence of black. It may occupy half the canvas or exist as just a quiet mark, but it serves as the psychological foundation for the work. I am drawn to its ability to alter perception and emotion, and to the tension created when light appears to emerge through it. 

For me, making art is ultimately a means of knowing, nurturing, and continually developing the self, a way to transform experience, and express the unseen into something material. I follow what emerges, leaving the finished image open to whatever someone else might recognise in it. 

My goal is to infuse every piece with lasting depth and quiet beauty, creating art that brings soul to a collector's private living space.