I am an experienced editor and proofreader – I have worked on over 400 books during my 25 years in the industry. I specialise in non-fiction, trade and academic for clients including Oxford University Press, Jessica Kingsley Publishers, John Catt Educational and Crown House Publishing. I have also worked as a proofreader for Oxford University Press and Cambridge University Press, as a sub-editor for local and regional newspapers, and as the senior editor of a business-to-business magazine publisher.

My artwork is informed by natural forms and patterns – branches, waves, fissures, plants, landscapes. But it is not about faithfully representing the natural world. It is about nature as it appears to me – inevitably refracted through the psychological, the political and the trivial. As I observe the world around me relentlessly wounded by human activity, I try to capture a trace of its extraordinary beauty. I am a self-taught artist; I have been creating and making art since I was a child. I have exhibited across the UK, including two solo shows at the National Botanic Garden of Wales, and with the Arborealists group. I was awarded associate membership of the Society of Botanical Artists in 2011.

(Photo by Dan Hopkins)