About

I am an artist and writer who focusses on the complex and interwoven relationships of the human and more-than-human through time. My practice of natural colour-making informs every aspect of my drawing and writing. Earth, wood, stone and plants are found and foraged, grown and harvested. Soil is sifted and washed; bones charred in the absence of air; plants simmered and laked. Images, made of the earth, of trees, of stones and the bodies of the dead, emerge on oak panels prepared to Cennini’s 14th century recipe; shrouds are woven from nettles and dandelions; script created from the land itself and the lived reality of our animal kin. Via the ancient continuum of pigment making, boundaries between species dissolve and every piece becomes a time specific portrait of tangled, interdependent life. Making and writing become visceral arts of recognition and remembrance; acts of ritual, care, and quiet resistance within the ‘violent unmaking’ of life in the Anthropocene.

Following a degree in Art History and English at York University, I originally trained as an easel paintings’ conservator at the Courtauld Institute of Art. In 2024 I was awarded an MA with distinction in Arts and Ecology, from Dartington Arts School, University of Plymouth, and completed a six week residency at Anthony Gormley’s High House. I am an elected full member of the Society of Graphic Fine Art and an invited member of the Wilderness Art Collective. I exhibit throughout the UK and in Europe, and my drawings are held in public and private collections. Recent publications include Dark Mountain, Wild Roof Journal, and the Center for Humans and Nature. In 2026 I received an ACE National Lottery Project Grant for work to create pigments from, and to tell different stories about, the UK’s designated ‘injurious’ weeds. I live in Devon.