I LIKE PAINT.

Ever since I can remember I preferred the smell of paint, varnish even turpentine,  over freshly baked bread or cookies!
 
In Amsterdam, 2006 my daughter was born, and shortly after came the move to Poland.
It's no understatement to say in this chapter of my life, I was reborn! 
The 'new mum' role highlighted all my weaknesses and strengths, and with those strengths I opened the floodgates to my suppressed creative being. The urgency for colour and paint resurfaced.

I founded WAWA BLA BLA. Emerging from Warsaw's dynamic street art scene and my curiosity, WAWA BLA BLA was a documentation of my urban art discoveries. In late 2014 I published a book and went on to open a vibrant gallery that promoted Polish Graffiti and Street Artists, celebrating the raw pulse of urban creativity. The gallery was a space alive with colour, noise, and freedom.
At the same time I was writing a monthly editorial piece in an English language expat magazine, promoting my host city Warsaw.

My move to Gdansk in 2024 marked another turning point. My daughter left for university, and after years of selling my photographs and curating and promoting others, I turned the lens inward, developing my own visual language with paint. A renewed artistic identity emerged.

My art today reflects that transformation and carries traces of both worlds: the bold spontaneity of the graffiti artist on the street and the quiet, sensual, depth of personal reflection.
It is a continuation of that dialogue between chaos and calm, rebellion and grace. 

I paint and create on every material available to me. I am an ardent recycler. I hoard cardboard, plastics, clothing remnants and paper, all for repurposing in my art. I strive to source materials locally in order to minimise my carbon footprint. Mostly I enjoy working on canvas or board. The bigger the better, but I also take delight in seeing a collection of small pieces come together. In my small, but bright, studio space and with an even smaller budget, I now consider myself on the right side of life. 
I am not here to behave. I am here to disturb the peace. Art is the kindest and most honest way for me to do that.

I work alone in my space, accompanied by music or the radio. I naturally gravitate to creative, hopeful souls. People who motivate and empower me. Particularly I enjoy like minded and entrepreneurial women. I feel tremendous satisfaction when I am able to support and motivate my peers to reach their goals. 

- Photography is my medium for capturing the fine detail and the composition of a 'real' moment that has meaning to me. 

- Paint, Collage and Embroidery are the mediums I lean to for visualisation of that conversation with those moments.

- Abstract and Expressive is my language. 

With one Art qualification to my name, a GCSE grade A, you could argue I have no right to call myself an 'artist'. But, the anarchist in me, who questions everything about the system, especially education, can not concur. Over the past 30+ years, independently I have sourced available learning tools, attended workshops and visited galleries and museums the world over to build my appreciation of art, its history and to gain technical skill. I continue to learn.  The practice through playfulness, getting messy, exploring the process and being around like minded humans is what matters most to me. I usually work on several pieces simultaneously, as it gives me more satisfaction and wastes less paint!

To elevate my knowledge and skills, in 2026 I will be going back to school (online) to further my education in Art History. This excites me! 

According to my family and art teacher at high school, choosing Business over Art at college, was an unexpected choice for me. They thought I had the potential, moreover the imaginative mindset and gritty attitude to have success at an art school. 
I studied marketing, sales and specialised in the Tourism sector. After two years at Chelmsford, Essex College, I completed my studies and took a full time job with a reputable UK wide Travel Operator. Not long after, I left the UK to travel and experience living and working abroad. First America, then the Netherlands and now Poland. I took my paint congealed foldable easel with me. 

Growing up close to London leant itself to frequent trips to top museums and exhibitions! This was the foundation for my fascination with painters' lives, their paintings and the arts.
I have a home in Amsterdam that is a stones throw from some of the most renowned Art Museums and Galleries in the world.
Amsterdam and Gdansk have strikingly similar architecture. As a self confessed chronic day dreamer, on daily walks I find it easy to imagine I'm in a Dutch master painting of the golden ages, the likes of Vermeer or Rembrandt when I'm strolling the cobbled streets and canals.

Today my family live on the Isle of Wight and my daughter resides in Amsterdam. I visit both regularly. The mum job is great! I've messed up loads, but not this job. Nurturing a love of books, art and music, while guiding her emotionally to become a bright, caring and creative citizen of the world has been my best unselfish act, an achievement that brought me immense joy. My daughter is now a book junkie. I, being easily distracted by every wonder and detail going on around me, am a slow, booksnail, reader! But not to be discouraged, when I'm not painting or scrolling through Dame Tracey Emin art, quotes and videos, I read every day, everything, especially the classics, and a bit of Huxley and Vonnegut for good measure.

In the words of Depeche Mode, my Essex Boys, let me take you on a trip... see the world in my eyes. Peruse, purchase or commission my art. And if you dare, you sign up to my newsletter! You'll learn more about how I navigate today's magical and mad world through brush strokes and words read.