I find inspiration from the power and vastness of nature and the wildlife that lives within it. I aim to bring the sense of wonder and inner peace that nature brings me into my paintings and, therefore, into the homes of my collectors.
I've been making art as long as I can remember. As a child, I went to a Waldorf school in Minnesota (USA), which is a style of schooling that incorporates art and creativity into learning and uses wet-on-wet watercolour to help children learn fine motor skills and ignite their creative brain.
Throughout the years, I tried different styles of art. I explored anime with markers or coloured pencils, making mini graphic novels, realistic graphite drawings, and both abstract and realism with acrylic paints. While my main focus in school was science (forensic anthropology to be exact), I took art classes whenever I could. I honed my skills by copying master painters' work, experimenting, and continuing to learn and practice as much as possible.
In 2017, I moved to Dundee, Scotland to pursue a master's degree in anatomy and forensic anthropology. In between studying and classes, I kept painting with acrylics, but wasn't able to paint as much as I would have liked.
In 2020, all of our lives were turned upside down when Covid-19 hit and many of us started working from home. It was during this time that I started going back to my watercolour roots. I found that, while acrylics allowed me to go back in and correct mistakes or change little details, watercolours let my creativity flow by taking some of that control away. The more I worked with watercolour, the more I fell in love with the medium.
In October 2021, I painted a sea creature every day (or so) as part of an online challenge. Just as I had fallen in love with watercolour, I fell in love with exploring the depths of the oceans through my paint brush. I was inspired by the incomprehensible amount of creatures that live in and around the oceans and seas and have continued painting sea creatures and other wildlife ever since.
My latest exploration has been impressionistic landscapes of the Scottish countryside, which were inspired by the beautiful sheep-covered hills, sparkling creeks, and little white farm houses I saw out of the train windows on the way to Edinburgh and other cities around Scotland.
