“Everything has beauty if you look close enough, even slime mould”

Hi I’m Amy!

Here’s a bit about me…

I’m the other side of 45 but still feel 21, I’m a mum of two teens who keep me on my toes and married to my best friend who’s a filmmaker. I love adventure, loud music and sunshine!

I also love nature…..a lot! Particularly plants, trees, the ocean, clouds, blue skies, octopus, fish, fungi, lychen, moss, rocks, shells, nudibranchs, seahorses, in fact all sea life, plants, reptiles, birds, insects, animals, so pretty much everything, even microscopic slime moulds (yes I know its weird)! Everything has beauty if you look close enough, even slime mould.

My first love was nature! I was born in The New Forest (UK) and spent my early years climbing trees, examining bugs and exploring the ancient forest through the gate at the end of my garden.

My second great love was drawing! At first it was cartoons and psychedelic patterns adorning my bedroom walls. After life took me on a journey from working in London to backpacking in faraway places I went full circle and moved back to Hampshire with my own family. It was then as I drew pictures for my young children to colour in that I reignited my creative curiosity and developed my drawing style. 

I see patterns everywhere! Having became tuned in to seeing patterns in nature I now love to find them as I explore the beaches, forests and heathland where I live in The South Downs National Park.

…and a bit about my art…

My drawings are in permanent, water & fade proof fine line pens, sometimes featuring alcohol markers or paint markers on smooth Bristol Board.   I’m also about to embark on larger scale canvas pieces in paint markers.

When curiosity took me on a deep dive into the world of micrographs I became fascinated by the complex and intricate patterns and shapes hidden in the natural world and how so much beauty is hidden beneath the surface (thats when I discovered slime mould).  Around the same time I had discovered the work of Ernst Haeckel and thought his illustrations of the natural world were exquisite.  

With this in mind I began experimenting and soon developed a drawing style using strings of cell like shapes to create lines. At first these were full pages of colour themed abstracts. As my art has developed I now find that I am drawn to a form of abstract expressionism, capturing the suggestion of seeing the natural world at a cellular level.  I intuitively draw organic shapes, influenced by shapes and patterns I find in nature and influenced with the emotions I feel at the time.  Recently I’ve been experimenting with landscapes, particularly the hills that surround me in The South Downs National Park and ocean waves from my regular visits to the beach.

Drawing offers me complete escape, its meditative and I find the repetitive process calming and therapeutic which helps quiet my overthinking mind, the perfect antidote for the stresses of life.  I love to listen to music when I draw, it influences the rhythm of my drawing, allowing my mind time to wander, the shape to form organically and inspiration to influence my choice of colour and shape.  

It’s important to me that my artwork makes people happy so I like to use bright uplifting or calming colours, which I think add a little piece of happiness to your wall.  

I offer a bespoke service to work with you to provide art that compliments your location, in your preferred colour scheme. I consider this a collaborative approach and am always open to hear your ideas.

My work has been exhibited at Sage & Salt Studio in Petersfield and was selected for The Women in Art exhibition at The Aspex Gallery in Portsmouth in 2023. I’m continuing to build my collection for private sales and future exhibitions and I’m excited about the prospect of producing large scale pieces and mixed media work.

A customer once remarked that my artworks ‘just make you feel happy’ after seeing a collection at an exhibition, what more could I ask for!

I hope you enjoy my drawings and if you have any questions or just want to get in touch I’d love to hear form you so just drop me a line x