I was born and raised in Richmond, Nelson Bays, attending Waimea College where I studied art through to the 7th Form year.

While pursuing a career in the Insurance industry, I returned to evening art classes at Waimea College where I discovered the gentle medium of chalk pastels.

With a change in career paths and now operating a part-time massage healing therapy clinic, returning to my heart-felt passion of drawing was an obvious choice of a complementary business, having studied sculpture and painting part-time at NMIT.

All too often in my healing profession I see people who are overworked and stressed with the complexities of life.

My studies of colour and light in the natural world, serve as a reminder of the simplistic beauty and grace that surround us, quite often unnoticed.

The flowers are like portraits that will remind us of people, places and faces, a reminder of our own inner beauty.