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 knew, 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 and discover they can paint too has been such a buzz!