I’m a London-based artist-illustrator and arts educator with a focus on projects relating to arts and health, sustainability, and urban nature.

My paintings often explore the occurrence of nature within urban spaces - the parts that thrive in the absence of tending, the uncultivated wildness from the street to the domestic sphere. Combining bold, expressive brushstrokes and decisively drawn lines, my illustrations are spontaneous and joyful whilst avoiding the sentimentality often associated with wildlife.

Mundane greys and magnolia house paint contrast with vibrant inks and fluorescent spray paints. I mix paint, printmaking and collage – employing a whole range of tools from forks to toothbrushes. I stand to paint on the floor and walls, enabling greater energy and movement; becoming like a dance, darting back and forth to the paper.

Previous illustration clients include the V&A Museum, Waterstones, food poverty charity The Felix Project and Orion Books. My book cover for André Alexis’ Fifteen Dogs, published by Profile Books, was nominated for the V&A Illustration Awards.

I run workshops in a variety of education and healthcare settings, ranging from pre-schoolers to adults in end-of-life care, children with SEND and mental health difficulties to city workers in need of an antidote. I’ve taught adults and teenagers at Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts and created educational content for the Access Art curriculum.

In both my teaching and own practice, I focus on the process of creating; exploring ways to paint intuitively, allowing mistakes to become an integral part of a piece.