I am an artist and photographer, born in Uganda and raised in Belfast and County Down in Northern Ireland. I trained and worked as a chartered surveyor, but colour, pattern, and making things have always run alongside the sensible job. I also ran a successful cushion design business and hold a diploma in colour and design. I now live on the Isle of Wight, a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve, where plants, insects, and overlooked details are never very far away.
As a child, I was happiest roaming the boglands between the drumlins of County Down, learning the seasons of wildflowers without realising that was what I was doing. I knew when things appeared, when they vanished, and how they quietly came back again. That habit of close looking—of unconsciously registering that everything was continuously changing—has never really left me.
These days I am a regular and unapologetic visitor to flower gardens and historic landscapes, including Osborne House, Farringford House (Tennyson’s old home), Mottisfont Abbey Gardens, Sir Harold Hillier Gardens, and Southsea Rose Garden. I spend a lot of time there quietly stealing photographs of flowers—gathering fragments, details, and moments—which later reappear, rearranged and layered, in my digital tapestries and photographic collages.