News From The Studio

What Are Pips? The Fascinating Story Behind Playing Card Symbols

My first collection of 2025 is a series of assemblage artworks featuring four symbols we all recognise – the suits from a deck of playing cards. These, along with markings on dice and dominoes, ar...

Introducing… The Pockets Collection, 2024

The Pockets Collection is a series of eight small assemblage artworks featuring beautifully curated collections of items inspired by those you might find in certain people’s pockets. From a Lady De...

How to curate your collection ready for a commission or workshop

When it comes to the art of collecting, the first thing to learn is how to curate your items to create a bespoke artwork or for a Memory Box commission or workshop. “You must have such a collection...

Where I buy vintage items: Robert’s Rummage, Hastings

In this series, I’m opening my little black book and sharing my favourite places to buy antique and vintage goods around the UK. First up, I shine the spotlight on the Aladdin’s cave that is Robert...

Yep, that's my art in Country Living Magazine

(Originally Published February 2024) The headline on the January 2024 edition of Country Living’s magazine is ‘It’s time to party!’ and I was certainly feeling in the party spirit as, drum roll pl...

I'm happily back in the studio (and in the sunshine)

(Originally posted late February 2024) This blog post covers everything I've been up to over the last couple of months, from freelance work, which has kept me busy, to all the antiques markets I'v...

Tutton & Young's MADE London 2023

(Originally published November 2023) It's been a week since Tutton & Young's MADE London in Angel and, boy, what a busy couple of weeks it's been. I was a late addition to the line up and was n...

This week in the Studio – 5th February 2023

(Originally published 5th February 2023) This week has been a wonderful mix of freelance design work and working towards the launch of my new collection. Plus I had a really exciting meeting with ...

New Year, New News from the Studio!

(Originally published 1st February 2023) I find January to be a strange month. On one hand, there’s the excitement of a fresh start—a blank slate to set goals, make to-do lists, and map out person...