"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. I also helped run safaris with my daughter's father, a well known professional hunter. 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've just finished a 2 year diploma in painting at the Leith School of Art where I learnt how to work with a variety of materials under the expert guidance and tutellage of Master Potion maker and Alchemist, Paul Martin.

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.

For information on Coburg House Studios which is home to around 70 fine and applied artists, please go to http://www.coburghouseartstudios.co.uk/