I am a contemporary painter living in Skipton, North Yorkshire.

My paintings are all about my love of colour.  I paint places I know well but my aim is not to replicate, but rather to give a sense of place using colours you wouldn’t expect to make something new and exciting.

Dismissing the 'rules' of perspective and realistic colours enables me to be truly creative and have some fun. I want to give the viewer something different to the obvious view, putting something of me in there and allowing the painting to take on a life of its own. My favourite medium is oils and mixed media such as oil pastels and wax to create texture and a different mark. Oil paint gives me the flexibility I need when laying down paint; the slow drying time enables me to go back into the painting during the session and smudge, scratch and blend.

In my studio, I add in my love of music. I choose the music genre to suit where I am in my process and how I am feeling; whether that is just starting out with a brand new canvas or struggling to move a painting on. When things are going very well, you may even catch me singing along and having a little boogie!