How it all began

The dance between wanting to be seen, and not wanting to be was challenging for me studying and performing in London, training as an artist and dancer.

In time, a private relationship with art and movement became a lifeline that gave me the safest place to express and discover.

Using a variety of media such as photography, sculpture, and light installation, my early work touched on themes of memory, place, boundary, belonging, and theories of attachment. The work was dominated by figures, that emerged from windows, walls, and furniture, reaching out yet bound.

Artist to Therapist

It was some years later doing an MA Art Therapy, when I absorbed more knowledge about theories of the unconsccious, communication and the therapeutic relationship.

This was also the first time I picked up a brush and started to paint during the Open Studio days.

I loved making intuitive brush marks, dreamy washes, spontaneous expressions; loose, exploratory, wild.

It still mazes me how the art process and end product, can contain layers of emotions, thought, meaning. It holds and reflects back.

I worked as an Art Therapist for over ten years and got to see the positive impact it had on shifting peoples emotional landscapes, bringing clarity and supporing change. I worked in day centres, non statuatory organisations, and with private clients, helping with grief, loss, trauma, anxiety, depression, low self esteem, addiction and many more issues. Shifts in well-being and insight occurrs because of how we can interact with the art, both in the process and as a tool for problem-solving and reflection.

British Association of Art Therapists.

Registered and Professionally Insured member of The Complementary Medical Association.

MA in Art Therapy - BA Hons in Fine Art and Insured Artist Practitioner and Trader