MY BACKGROUND

I`ve always been an artist, for as long as I can remember. I`ve always been creating in some way or another.

During secondary school, I was mainly concentrating on graphite pencil and

fineliner drawings.

I loved understanding contrasts, depths and shadows.

I still do love creating with graphites and pen, but it`s not my main practice.

Then during sixth form, I started experimenting with chalk and charcoal. I would create big artworks focusing on the theme of endangered animals, and thought charcoal was such a meaningful way to engage with this topic, mainly due to its natural pigments.

2022 came around and I made a very impulsive decision to apply to Falmouth University and study Fine art. I`m so glad I did it! I`ve never been comfortable enough in myself to just let go and improvise and experiment in my work. I was such a perfectionist, but going to uni allowed me to realise that art doesn`t need to be perfect!

Uni 1st year - concentrated on body/face painting.

I absolutely adore Cindy Shermans work. How she uses herself as the canvas.

I think I really connected with that, because I was trying to figure myself

out and I saw myself as a blank canvas. I really enjoyed this era of my practice.

Uni 3rd year - this year was very traumatic for me for multiple reasons,

I was debating on dropping out, so instead of dropping out, I decided to

just focus on practices that I enjoy. Don`t make this year a chore, its

happened before with art and education, and I didn`t want that to happen again.

So I decided to bring my hobby of crocheting into my practice. I made crocheted

artworks, more specifically for animals. I was volunteering at an animal shelter

(and we already know I love animals) and our dissertation was to create an exhibition.

I exhibited my artwork at the shelter, to the animals, and it went great! this

crocheting then evolved into embroidering wool into paintings. 2nd year made me

start loving acrylics, so I carried it on and I decided one day that I wanted to

create a painting just for myself, and that ended up being my first painting in my

new era, titled `Bailey`. I just fell in love with everything about this practice I found.

Loved the process, loved the result, loved the meaning …

…and now we`re here!

still wanting to create beautiful homages to our beloved furry family members and to also just carrying on with experimenting.

JUST CREATING FOR CREATING SAKE :)

COVID - 19 hit the world and I would sit in my room and just try to express myself in any way I could think of. As most of the world, I was struggling during this time, not due to the pandemic, but due to personal experiences, and of course, all had to happen at the same! I discovered that art was my therapy. I was 18 during the Pandemic, and I was not emotionally mature enough to understand or even express my feelings, so I used alcohol markers. I have so many sketchbooks full of patterns and doodles and artworks that were just me silently processing everything.

Uni 2nd year - focused more on the idea of endangered animals again, but I wanted to push my experimenting. I still used face painting within this theme, but I started experimenting with lino printing and trying to fully embrace painting with acrylics. I`ve never felt comfortable dealing with acrylics, because I felt like I couldn`t control it, so I let that go and went with it.