While kitesurfing, I sustained a traumatic brain injury. Weeks after suffering searing pain, visual distortions and extreme fatigue, I found myself drawn to oil paintings. The practice of painting soothed my headaches and brought some relief. Thousands of hours later, I have developed a style that is intended to provide the same sense of escape for fans.

These large scale paintings depict lost islands, far off mountains, and the endless changing sea and skyscapes that she loves. They provide a radical act of escapism: a return to nature.

In this moment in our world, we are completely adrift, relying on art that abstracts us from our spaces rather than focuses us on what is around us. Our art allows us to ignore the degradations to our planet and the complete loss of connection we have with our world. I want to force people to contemplate quiet moments in the world but particularly those moments of possibility: an emerging sunrise, a disappearing sunset, the sunlight breaking through the horizon after a storm.

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"I just want to give you something to fall into, a place to let your imagination run wild, some place that feels like there is magic you can almost touch."

If we stopped for long enough to see the world around us, we would find it a place filled with magical possibilities, potential and moments of unfettered joy. That’s what’s exciting. That’s what’s possible: that is what my paintings are intended to provoke in those who view them.