about me

There is so much wonder, joy and beauty in every corner and element of the world - I love to find it and share it.

I have spent my life finding magic, often in unexpected places. Someone said to me once, that I know how to make even a burning rubbish tip on a riverside look interesting and somehow beautiful.

When I pick up my pen or paint or bottle of ink or my ipad and start to add lines and colours and create something where there was nothing. I feel like I have come home. I feel so lucky to make a living from this thing I most love.

I am inspired by people and their stories and I love to travel. I have been lucky enough to live in Kenya, Mongolia, China, Nepal, Germany, Tasmania, Australia and have travelled through more than 40 countries.

I love a beautiful line, the shapes made by plants, the textures of a building. I love tea, coffee and atmospheric rooms. I love the wind and snow. A good weekend for me is hours spent on a windy mountain top with my camera or wandering through a new city with my sketchbook. Followed by a run across a hilltop and then time by a fire with a teapot, a favourite cup and some pen, ink and colour.

The contrast between the cosy and the wild makes me feel alive.

Finding beautiful shapes and colours and lines in everyday life makes my world wonderful, so does sharing this skill with clients – making their brand or business stand out in a way that they are proud of, and a way that reflects their story.

I am from the ironbark region of central Victoria, Australia, but currently live in Edinburgh. We moved to the UK at the beginning of 2020 and haven’t left! I work for people worldwide.

I’d love to make something for you.

 

Clients include: Bloomsbury, Hachette, BBC, Cameron Kids Books, BirdLife Australia, Heritage Expeditions, Tribe, Woollykins, Australia Remade, Australian BirdLife Magazine.

I also take photographs. Visit my photography website here.

I also enjoy writing. You can read about my struggles and thoughts and breakthroughs as an artist on my substack.

We found the Mediterranean!

We found the Mediterranean!

Sketching out in the world is one of my favourite things to do… Here I am in a treasure of a city - Edinburgh!

Sketching out in the world is one of my favourite things to do… Here I am in a treasure of a city - Edinburgh!

 
 
 

Drawing on the streets - or should I say canals - of Venice! My most favourite thing in the world to do.

Me! I am much happier behind the camera than in front of it… but here I am in my favourite jacket designed by Mirka Mora, one of Australia’s most wonderful artists.

 
 

Me again in my element, this time in beautiful Cornwall drawing the village where my Dave’s family are from.

One of my favourite drawings of Cornwall drawn sitting in the rain in Mevagissy. You can see the raindrops on the page and I think this adds so much to this drawing.

 
Drawing chickens in my studio… at my home base in Castlemaine

Drawing chickens in my studio… at my home base in Castlemaine

In my OTHER studio, the big wide world… This photo was taken in one of the most interesting countries I have had the privilege to live in - in the hills outside Ulaanbaatar in Mongolia.

In my OTHER studio, the big wide world… This photo was taken in one of the most interesting countries I have had the privilege to live in - in the hills outside Ulaanbaatar in Mongolia.