"A Posy" was awarded the Anne Redpath prize at Visual Arts Scotland RSA 2010

I was born in Edinburgh but lived in England and Botswana for many years where I ran a "mud hut" knitting business in a little village outside Gaborone. Following my return to Scotland I dipped in and out of various professions before discovering painting at a dreamwork and art weekend workshop in Plockton. I very quickly got totally hooked and have been studying art since. 

I currently live and work in Edinburgh where I have a studio at Coburg House. I finished a 2 year diploma in painting at the Leith School of Art where I learnt how to work with a variety of materials, including many techniques rarely used nowadays.

I am passionate about colour so use natural pigments mixed with binders including hide glue, gesso, beeswax glazes and oil. I love people, flowers, interiors, pattern, textiles, oriental rugs and often combine them in fanciful flights of fancy to create a stage where the exquisite world of colour is paramount. I often use stitch, stick and ink; working quickly and intuitively to capture the natural rhythm of the subject matter and then apply the paint, layering, glazing until it's saturated with enough colour to give it a life of it's own.

I exhibit at Open Studios at Coburg House in August and December, and at galleries in and around Edinburgh.

For information on Coburg House Studios which is home to around 70 fine and applied artists, please go to