About me

I trained as a theatre designer at London’s Central St Martin’s College of Art and Design. I worked in theatre and television, notably Channel 4’s The Big Breakfast. My passion for drawing and painting began in 2015, when I went to live on a wind swept nature reserve in East Sussex. Now, back in the north, you can find me drawing live, at auction marts, particularly in Middleton in Teesdale where I have my studio. This is how I came to be introduced to the theatre of livestock sales. I appreciate this unique opportunity to learn about and visually record such an important part of farming in this local community and am grateful that no one minds me being around with my sketch book, on busy auction days.

My drawing process: Live drawing is very important to me, it is being in that moment and making marks to capture an essence of the event. There isn’t time in an action drawing to overwork, I just try to capture what I can, the movement, energy and feeling as best I can. Charcoal, is a wonderful medium for this kind of drawing, making many and varied marks. The drawing will imprint itself onto another drawing when the sketch book is closed. I have become increasingly interested in these cross over markings, suggested movement and time passing, a before and after. They remind me of the paintings we made at school, half the paper painted, folded, then opened to reveal a magical butterfly.