Graphic and fine artist, living and working in Leistershire.

Using mixed media design with collage and resin, based on a modern interpretation of 'pop art' and other suff.

I studied Graphic Design at Derby University. I now work full time as a Graphic Designer and in my spare time I work from my own studio producing mix media/college artworks, using tactics of appropriation and transformation to reflect the fashion and beauty industry and the impact it has on women.

I make dynamic, collages from current fashion & beauty magazines, books and printed imagery, building up various layers of paper to create depth, then drawing, painting and colouring the image to change the context of its meaning, and finally adding resin to permanently seal the layers of paper, or sometimes not…. it’s sometime better to be organic.

Recently; I have been donated old/used make-up which matches the collaging and recycling of materials ethos…. 

NOTE: “As a graphic designer Photoshop is a tool I use daily. The use of Photoshop to edit faces of models and celebrities in women’s magazines or on social media….. that promotes beauty products has become the norm. As such I feel this sends out a negative message to women that to be beautiful is to be flawless”.

DISCLAIMER: This is getting better slowly! These images were created with this in mind, creating layers of collage to mimic the layers of self perception and the mask we wear to cover our true selves.