As an Artist and a Neonatal Intensive Care Nurse, I am faced with a complexity of emotions in my everyday life. My exposure to what women go through during pregnancy and childbirth, as well as the separation from their baby, has lead my artwork to focus more on the female form, motherhood and on the intricacy of emotions we experience in our lives. Alongside this, my personal experience of the impact of living with epilepsy is also an important influence and inspires my semi abstract and modern artwork. Painting is a hugely important tool for me to express myself and brings me much happiness!

Painting brings me joy through much needed focus and satisfaction, which helps me calm my mind. My use of vibrant colours and strong lines in my contemporary portrait and figurative art has evolved due to the compelling messages I strive to convey in my work.

Mental health has become an ever more apparent and important issue. I myself have experienced how exhausting it can be trying to cope with an ever-changing time of uncertainty and this has undoubtedly had an impact on my work. In my Lockdown collection, I have strived to portray a message of irony, connecting both what we are told by our loved ones in messages of support and how we should behave to help ourselves, with what is truly being experienced in the mind. I aim to invite and yet challenge the viewer to try to see under the surface and the meaning of the painting, so that ultimately, it is not just the artist that is experiencing the emotional narrative, but the viewer themselves. I have found that this is so important to me.

Ultimately, there is help and support available to us, which is not only the joy I experience through my nursing profession but also a message I wish to send.