Art that helps push through difficult emotions to find peace

About me & my work

Born and bred in the North West of England, I was surrounded by old photos, family heirlooms, sentimental trinkets, and stories that still have an influence on my view of the world today.

My pieces reflect the tension between beauty and brokenness, fragility and strength—inviting viewers to confront discomfort, find meaning in lost and forgotten things, and connect with their own innermost thoughts and feelings.

I tend to use discarded dolls, old photos and vintage fabric and wallpaper designs as metaphors for memory, trauma, and emotional resilience. In doing so, I aim to provide a visual context to facilitate a deeper connection and understanding of our shared histories; creating artworks rooted in lived experience — exploring themes of identity, nostalgia, social class, and survival to help those who seek solace and comfort to push through difficult emotions to find peace.

In the subject matter I choose, I aim to evoke emotions via the use of objects and metaphors that, simultaneously, seem both fragile and defiant as testament to my own fortitude and emotional strength. I am interested in the power of objects to hold memory, to disturb and to comfort, and to challenge what is considered valuable or worthy. Through this lens, I offer artworks that are at once emotionally raw and quietly defiant—vulnerable yet resilient.

Some of my work is indeed difficult to look at and is certainly challenging but hopefully, beauty can be found for most in the fragility of its spirit.

I currently live and work in the beautiful historic City of Chester and I am enjoying a fruitful term as Artist in Residence at the University.

Get In Touch With Me

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