My Story

I've been drawing for as long as I can remember.  I have memories of creating a self portrait in Kindergarten, clearly visualising myself in a blue dress and wanting to translate it to paper.  At 12, I started oil painting lessons and naturally followed that with Fine Arts School.
However, the gentle, healing, joy I felt when creating was burnt out of me and replaced with stress, through the intense need to continually produce.  I turned to teaching, and while my creativity began manifesting through different outlets, I found no joy in painting.
Around 10 years ago, occasional migraines transformed into daily pain.  Chronic migraine led to increased isolation and depression.  Hopeless, I surrendered my desperation.  Then I began to experience a healing of the soul.  Gardening was a gentle activity my body could manage and I discovered the miracle of watching a seed grow into a beautiful flower. I felt as though it was the very finger print of God that my soul was responding to in nature and I wanted to share it.
Around this time I was offered a course in watercolor florals. While I had always feared watercolors, somehow, having the freedom that comes from being a beginner was just what I needed to start painting again. From there I discovered surface pattern design and learned how to integrate my art into patterns for products.

While I'm still growing as an artist, I am pleased to share my work and hope that somehow you'll feel what I feel when awed by the beauty of flowers.