I'm an international selling artist specializing in pet portraits and wildlife. I live and paint in the beautiful South Downs National Park, England with my husband and two cocker spaniels.

It all began with a tiny nightingale watercolour. Desperate to get my Uncle Peter something special for his birthday, I searched the loft for my old watercolour paints.

I’ve always had a huge passion for anything that has fluffy ears and a tail. As a child, I would lie on my belly drawing animal after animal, especially dogs. My father was a talented watercolour artist and encouraged me to add colour to my many sketches. Although it scared me at first and I found it hard to control, I loved how it brought my animals to life.

Although I continued to play around with watercolour paints, dipping in and out of it as the years went by, it wasn’t until my uncle’s nightingale that I was hooked, it was the right time, my art journey had begun!

At that time I was running my own gardening business full-time, so the art had to fit in with that. It was still dogs I loved to paint, so it was a natural progression to take on pet portrait commissions. It started with friends, then friends of friends, and the next thing I was sending pet portraits out to America! At that point, it was hard to fit it all in and I felt I had to find time to explore my style, so I reduced my gardening work and started to concentrate on setting up my art business.

In 2016 I began teaching my free-flow methods to small groups of beginner artists. The pleasure of helping people unlock their painting potential, seeing their faces light up when they discover they can paint too, has been such a buzz!