I am originally from Rochdale, and after travelling much of Europe, Thailand and Australia, I have now settled down in North Wales with my partner and daughter. 

Art and travelling have both been great passions of mine since I was small. I studied art at GCSE level and originally moved onto study Art at A level before making an early decision, to change my career choices and study full time to work in the Travel and Tourism industry. After many years working as a Travel Reservation Agent, I made a bold move to leave and spend some time travelling throughout Europe, Thailand and Australia. Upon my return, I decided to move back onto the path of Fine Art, my true passion, and began slowly improving my drawing/painting skills to a high standard whilst working part-time as a Cook and part-time as an Accounts Assistant. Throughout my working life, I have never been fully happy with the roles I worked towards, and I have come to realise that what I really enjoy is the time I spend picking up those pastels or paint brushes and watching the life unfold off the easel. 

I have spent the last couple of years, self-teaching myself to use pastels, and more recently acrylics, to create realistic wildlife artworks in order to progress as a wildlife artist.  I chose to focus on wildlife art in particular, as I have always loved being around nature, whether it be walking over mountains and observing the local wild Carneddau Ponies, or diving through colourful reefs with Rays & Sharks.

Since emerging as a wildlife artists in the past 3 years, I have now taken the opportunity to use my platform to support wildlife conservation wherever possible. Currently, all of my big cat paintings support Wildlife Friends Foundation Thailand, bird paintings support RSPB reserves, marine paintings support the Captain Paul Watson Foundation (Formerly known as Sea Shepherd UK) and I also have works available on www.africawildlifeart.com which provide a 50% donation to the Invicta Wildlife Fund.

My work can be found in many collectors homes across the UK, US & Australia, whilst also being available to view & purchase all year round in a stunning welsh gallery called Artworks 2 Celf (Betws-Y-Coed), whilst a selection of smaller paintings and prints are available all year round at Bay Gallery (Colwyn Bay). Previous gallery exhibitions included Mall Galleries London, Gallery@Oxo London, Espacio Gallery London & more.

I'm thrilled to say that I'm the proud winner of many awards since beginning my art career, including but not limited to: 2023 Inaugural Chairmans Award - Association of Animal Artists 2023 Best In Show Award - Association of Animal Artists 2023 Into The Home Award - Association of Animal Artists 2022 Best In Show Award - Association of Animal Artists 2021 Runner Up Award - Association of Animal Artists Final 3 wildlife/animal category SAA PROFESSIONAL ARTISTS OF THE YEAR 2023 2023 Winner Pastel Guild of Europe Summer Get Dusty 2023 IAPS 42nd Global Exhibitor in "The Globe" 2022 Winner of the All Womens International - Light Space Time 2022 Sketch For Survival Wildlife 100 Finalist

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