From beginning my apprenticeship in a busy high street studio in 2006, to working in my fully registered private garden studio, I’ve found my place in the tattoo industry. Working on mainly botanical projects of all sizes, I offer a totally organic approach by drawing directly onto skin before beginning the tattoo. This allows me to work with the unique body, creating a truly bespoke piece of forever artwork for the client to leave with.

I’m obsessed with flowers of all kinds, but a dried flower brings another layer of immense beauty to life. Working with something so fragile yet resilient is awe inspiring to me and they bring an incredible otherworldliness to a space in the form of installation or decor. From wreaths, tablescapes and flower crowns to shop windows and large scale bespoke pieces, there is no limit of what we can create. I also feel immense joy preserving special flowers for my clients.

I took my first taxidermy course in 2015 and have since worked with some incredible mentors. My vision with taxidermy was always to create something a little whimsical but as ann animal lover, always respectful of the animal, working ethically. I am still fascinated by the up close beauty taxidermy allows us to immerse ourselves into, weaving sweet creatures into dried flowers, there is just something so powerfully soothing about the combination, a reminder of our impermanence but a celebration of the beauty.

Painting has always been something I get swept up into, the process of dancing paint around a heavyweight paper or canvas, it’s incredibly cathartic work for me and I channel lots of thoughts into these 2-dimensional pieces which continue to work around the themes present in all of my work collectively- botanicals, nature and sacred femininity. Often my original paintings are framed in vintage or second hand elaborate gold frames which I feel bring a whole host of historical wisdom to the piece. I’ve loved seeing my paintings share further in the form of fine art prints, which are generally hand embellished with gold.

I have a love for free motion machine embroidery, finding it was a very similar feeling to sketching. Working in a similar way to tattooing, I generally don’t follow a plan but allow myself to be led by the feeling of the piece or the shape of the garment. I have created large scale wall hangings, stitching over painted colour and more recently been experimenting with bringing new life to preloved clothes with bespoke free motion machine embroidery designs.

Bringing women together in intimate groups in the studio is such a humbling experience. I believe connection is more important than ever before and women lifting other women is a wholesome thing. We gather in the studio, drink tea, and experiment freely with an array of materials with no pressure or objective and absolutely no judgement or comparison. Every single person has creativity in them, but it is often long buried beneath feelings of inadequacy (often from as easily as school), it takes regular practise to allow us to embrace creativity, and really find the flow, but when you do, you won’t look back.