As a figurative artist, I create portraits in charcoal, pencil and oil paint that are traditional in technique but expressive in style. I strive to reclaim figurative art as a powerful means of story telling and communicating identity, as well as a meditative practice of dissolving assumption and re-learning to see the world authentically. I share these skills and create inclusive spaces for others to practice in the regular life drawing sessions I facilitate and teach.

I also work as a freelance mycological & botanical illustrator -creating illustrated foraging ID posters and other printed goods- and work by commission for organisations dedicated to social and environmental justice.

My foraging workshops teach people about wild food, medicine and crafts, and encourage the growth of creative connection to nature. I think there’s a lot of power to be found through foraging and spending time in the natural world –it’s a source of rest, community, inspiration, and can be a reckonable act of resistance against oppressive systems that seek to dominate through division. Spending time within –and as part of– entangled ecologies reminds us we are whole, and allows us to imagine and to create more liberated futures.

The music I write echoes the principles behind my workshops and visual art. I write contemporary folk-leaning songs with intricate finger-picked guitar and banjo parts, and lyrics circling the themes of home and time. They explore nature and/as creativity and community, and are interwoven with found soundscapes and instrumental parts that murmurate through…

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