Hello you beautiful human, I’m glad you found me.

Before I tell you about me, I want to tell you a story.

All the work on this website is “of a time” and was created over a three year period. This period was a time of caring for my beautiful Mother-in-Law Betty, who had Motor Neurone Disease.

During that time, the garden became mine and my husband’s sanctuary. We grew flowers from seed, and spent a lot time with our hands in the earth. Tending to new life, nurturing and growing felt like an antidote to our daily reality of watching a loved one slowly fade away. It was period of much exploration and tending - to our grief, to love, and a lot of loss.

I told those stories of love & loss through creating art with what the garden gifted us. Growing the flowers, attending to the seedlings, then cutting them, arranging them and basically seeing them through their whole life cycle was fascinating - and all consuming for me during that time. I was also obsessed with drying them to preserve their beauty.

The finished artworks were created using those flowers at different life stages.

You will find that to the naked eye the finished works are confusing in their hyper-realism. Many people ask…is it a photo or is it an oil painting?

The answer is it’s neither - I use a flatbed scanner and a specially built dome, to scan the fresh flowers. This is called SCANOGRAPHY.

Some artworks can take up to 50 passes of the scanner as I rearrange the florals to tell the story I want to tell. I make minimal adjustments in post production as I love the little marks, the signs of decay and the beauty of imperfection.

All my stories center around connection - to ourselves, to the world, and to each other.

ABOUT ME

I am a true multi passionate, and creativity weaves itself through everything I do.

I work as Somatic Coach, Executive Coach, a photographer, and I run Women’s Circles. Being an Artist is part of me - and even when not actively making physical art, I try to be creative every single day. Life in itself is art - in the way we offer our work to the world, in the way we live, love, breathe and parent - and in the way we look after ourselves and each other.