When I was a young painter and a shop girl and a gallery assistant and a window dresser and a bar tender, I saved up all my money to spend a few months in New York.

I met a musician in Manhattan who lived in the Trump Tower with his parents. He told me that I was not really a painter if I wasn’t only a painter.

He said I was a Jobber.

A Jobber was a bad thing. If you were a jobber it meant you were not good enough so you had to take on other jobs.

I really like doing lots of things all at once.

My favourite Job was resident artist for Edit-Group, Australia. We collected furniture and curios and turned them into the most fabulous things. A stack of books with some architectural plans became a table lamp which was quickly bought by Liberty London to sit amongst their carefully curated homewares on Level Four.

We started painting directly onto silk and then we started printing fabric by the metre. The most wonderful collection of bright linens that made their way into some of the marvellous Firmdale Hotels.

I moved to London in 2008 and started working on film sets in the art department. This type of work suits a jobber very well. You have to make all sorts of things in all manner of ways with very little time. Working freelance enabled me to maintain my painting practice and in 2011 I had my first UK solo exhibition, Notes at the Troubadour Gallery in Earl’s Court.

Becoming a mother made it difficult to find the time to paint. My practice by this time included a tiny business designing fabrics under my own name. This evolved to include a bespoke service designing heirloom linens to celebrate an event. A birthday scarf, an anniversary pillow. A need to keep a record of all the millions of pictures my own children made over the years saw the business grow to include a design service turning children’s own pictures into fabrics for cushions, curtains and bed linen.

In 2018 my second solo exhibition Fold hung at Zita Elze Flower Academy. The collection led to commissions for flower portraits and bespoke abstract pieces.

Recent commissions have included the shadow cast across the wall of a family home before it was sold.

The view of a shared favourite place for above a sofa.

Spring flowers turned into a bespoke fabric for the lounge room.

I continue to work to commission so please do get in touch.