I’m an artist living and working in Cornwall, from my home studio tucked between the tors of Bodmin Moor and the wild North Cornwall coast.

For nearly 25 years I worked as a commercial illustrator. It was a busy, colourful chapter of my life, but somewhere along the way something quieter began calling me back, to painting, to the land, and to a slower way of making. These days, my life and my work are closely entwined.

Home is family, dogs, feeding birds in the garden and morning coffee outside with my husband. It’s watching the moon change, noticing the first turn of a season, gathering logs for the fire and marking the old points of the year with small rituals. I’m endlessly drawn to the tiny things that might otherwise go unnoticed, frost on the grass, a fallen flower, a baby snail crossing a path, sparrows playing chase, or the subtle change in leaves when rain is on its way.

My studio is an extension of that world. Shelves hold jars of earth pigments, botanical inks, dried plants and herbs alongside feathers, twigs and small artefacts that belonged to my parents and grandparents. I’ve always dreamed of having an old-fashioned apothecary; perhaps making colour from plants, trees and earth is my own version of one.

The landscape has become increasingly important to me, not simply as something to paint, but as something we form relationships with. I’m interested in the places we come to know by heart, the memories they gather, and the ways people, place and belonging become almost impossible to separate.

Trees, landforms, birds, mythology and the feminine find their way into my paintings, as do the rhythms and rituals of the changing seasons. I work with natural inks, earth pigments and paint on paper, wood and linen, allowing the materials themselves to have a voice in what emerges.

After many years of making images for clients, I now find myself making work from much closer to home.

Slowly, attentively, and with one eye always on the wild.