About me

I am a forty-something lass who lives in South Wales in the UK.  I have a quirky kind of personality.

I’m a forty-something mostly self-taught artist and I find my inspiration from nature, especially ammonites and other fossils and microcsopic images of living things, Romanesque architecture, Early Celtic art, Prehistoric art and monuments, the Universe.

Much of my work is abstract with flowing shapes, lines and colours that create crazily textured and detailed artworks. I have an inner raven that will not be denied; it insists I add metallic and iridescent accents to every piece of work I create.

I love to work in a flowing, free and easy way, seeing where inspiration and intuition take me, allowing me to create beauty from a blank surface or one filled with seeming chaos – either starting point works for me! Spirals and swirls and organically flowing forms are a feature of my work.

My work is often guided by inner journeys of exploring and understanding myself, or of the inner responses to various experiences I have in my life. My art allows me to bring some sense of order and understanding to the seemingly chaotic experience we call life.

I love colour, and love to work with it’s symbolic representations – colour evokes strong responses in us all on an unconscious level, and it is this unconscious well of inspiration I seek to tap into and use in my work.

I love to work with technical drawing pens, watercolours, inks, coloured pencils and metallic paints and pens. I also love to express my inner self using felts, needle felting, beads, wires and metallic threads too. If it involves intricate, fussy work in a free-form, unconstrained manner (even though the finished piece always appears constrained and precise) I love it!

I hope you share in the great joy, pleasure and love I feel when I create my art.

If you’re interested, you can see much of my art at my Artwyrd at deviantART home on the infernal-web. You can also see my artistic endeavours at the same place.  You can also purchase artwork from my Artwyrd shop on Etsy.

By day I teach science to pupils with special educational needs, but outside of work much of my time is devoted to artistic and creative pursuits, my spirituality, and training to be a hypnotherapist.