‘On warm spring mornings, you can almost taste the gorgeous freshness in the air, after the cold wet damp winter months. While summer brings the wonderful smells of the gathered harvests. As in late autumn the mist and dew is lying between the woodland valley and smells heavy with rotting soil and fallen leaves.

I often marvel at the woodlands and its amazing shades of green, that filter though the light, and birds singing to their heart’s content. When on the riverbank, if you’re very lucky, visions of blue and green, flash before you, as a little kingfisher flys bye.’

Along the country lanes red foxes roam, looking for food from empty bins. They have beautiful coats of many colours…brown and yellow ochres, ginger and bronze, with white muzzles and black sock, moving quickly and lowly to the safety of the woods and beyond, before stopping and looking back.


These are the magical moments that happen around where I live and work on the edge of Exmoor National parkland, in a little Devon cottage studio.
It allows me to get out into the beautiful countryside and coast, to sketch and take photographs, that captivates and inspires me, often resulting in a sketchbook full of flowers, plants, landscapes and doodles of whatever has taken my fancy!

With over twenty five years experience of drawing and painting, I find myself extremely versatile in what medium and style I use, and can easily switch from watercolours to pencil and pastels to ink work. I think that’s why, some of them are a detailed interpretation of what I see, mixed with a passion for naturalism and the beauty of illuminated paintings.