My creative career began in the UK as a social documentary photographer, followed by seven years as facilitator of a hospice-based project making books and films with people at the end of life. A graphic design degree followed but fnding commercial work restrictive, I moved to West Cork in 2012 and committed fully to life as a painter, which offers the solitude, risk and freedom to which I am temperamentally best suited.

Alongside painting, I love life drawing and teaching. I enjoy the challenges of exhibition curation, have been involved in several environmental campaigns through the arts, and am also a team member of Arts for Health, delivering sessions in health care settings in West Cork.

I have exhibited widely including at the RA Summer Show in London, the RUA in Belfast, and the Vue Art Fair, RHA, Dublin. Paintings are in the OPW and Cork County Council art collections as well as in private homes in Germany, Switzerland, the U.S.A., the U.K. and Ireland.