Bachelor of Fine Arts (Printmaking) 1999
Post Graduate diploma in Museum Studies 2000

I love to make prints and I always make woodcuts. My prints are never complete until they have been drawn, painted, sewn, or stamped on.

I work from home on the weekends and print using a rolling pin because I don't have a press. My 'studio' is a big room in our house - it's shambolic and looks out to our walnut tree and the Wairarapa landscape. I like to create mixed media works - my prints are a starting point for drawing, painting, stamping, and painting.

People tell me my work looks homemade, or like something from a vintage craft magazine – I take that as a compliment. I’m inspired by New Zealand, the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s. I love vintage, homemade things, grandmothers, the New Zealand landscape, birds, plants, wallpaper, and colour.

I also use the Victorian Flower Language in my prints, a secret code from Victorian times where each flower is given a meaning. Rose for love, Rosemary for remembrance, Clematis for mental beauty.