I grew up in Northern Ireland during the troubles in an insulated and somewhat fundamentalist religious community.

I loved to draw and play football. I didn’t love the hellfire preaching and rapture stories from my Sunday school teachers.

After achieving an A grade in GCSE Art & Design I then bottled the remainder of my education until my late twenties, when I studied with the Open University and gained a BA (Honours) in Arts and Humanities with a focus on Art history.

During the past 15 years I have established my own art & design business, working across many sectors and with various business types.

As a visual artist, I create bold, expressive abstractions that explore the relationships between colour, form and space, all expressed from a place of searching and seeking in my own journey with mental health. Through gestural brushwork and vivid colours, I balance structured elements with spontaneous expression.

My graphic design studio has enabled me to blend traditional design practices with artistic ideas and concepts - I’ve worked with industry leaders in coffee, drinks and hospitality. A recent example of this can be seen in the best-selling book The Business of Specialty Coffee by Maxwell Dashwood which features my abstract work on the cover as well as typesetting and all internal graphics.

My most recent work engages parts discovered in therapy and my journey with mental health.

The intersection between my various parts and my self are represented in my paintings, during the making but also then left behind on the finished work - a journey yet to be completed or resolved but, left in each work.