I have been doing creative things for as long as I can remember, encouraged by my old mum. From when I was a child, she helped me to see objects in clouds, in my bedroom wallpaper, in pavement cracks.

Following years of doing crafts, I finally took the plunge some few years ago, to working in paint on a flat surface. It's a long continuing journey which I share through teaching adults and children in regular classes and workshops at my local community house as well as the Ferntree Gully Art Society of which I am an active member.

I work mainly in acrylic paints (I like the quick drying time) and use tools that I make myself from industrial waste materials and old plastic cards, as well as using paint brushes, building rich layers of colour and shape.

The subjects of my work reflect the joy I find in the world around me. There are animals and plants (lots of these!), real and imagined places, and sometimes people.

My style can be summed up as 'colourful but recognisable'.