I have always been an artist, from the first moment at the age of three when I drew a brightly coloured crayon picture of “Big Nanny” on the freshly painted white hallway. I’ve always loved to draw and write, and as I went through school I became involved with all the art clubs I could find, from pottery to technical drawing. It was really my A’level art course (age sixteen to eighteen), that started my painting career, introducing me to oils and acrylics. I loved being able to squash colour across a surface.

I went on to study a Bachelor of Arts in Illustration, which opened the door to printmaking and photography. For my final year I primarily studied printmaking and took a research trip to Asia, to study how art was influenced by a different culture. This lead to a series of prints depicting the religious turmoil in Tibet; for which I then won ‘The Sylvia Dowsett Memorial Award’.