Artist

For over forty years I have been passionate about painting to express myself creatively. Throughout a career as a fashion model, strutting the catwalks of London and New York, and my years as a restaurateur, I taught myself about painting techniques. After travelling extensively, absorbing the colours of Africa, the vastness of Australia and the buzz of New York, I opened my studio gallery in St Ives Cornwall in 1995. I’ve exhibited extensively over the years but having my own gallery enabled me to be as creative and experimental as I wished. 

Creating is always an exhilarating adventure and I’m so grateful to be able to do it. I can’t call it work, it is never work, it is indulging my passion. So flooding my studio with music I love, I paint, overlaying colours, building up layers and texture then scraping back, adding whatever I need to create the painting I want to paint. 

Over the years my work has evolved my seascape paintings have become more etherial and sensual, more abstracted. They evoke a sense of place, distilling the essence of raw irrepressible nature, rather than a depicting it. My aim is to always create something, authentic and original. Not something that is pretentious or full of hidden meaning but something that expresses my enthusiasm and passion for painting, something the viewer can enjoy.