Finding Inspiration in Life’s Journeys
Inspiration often hides in the unexpected – in the places we’ve been, the people we’ve met, and the moments that changed us. My work draws from a life lived in motion: from muddy football pitches to the discipline of army life, from the calm of the ocean floor to the quiet fields of Oxfordshire.
Every experience has left its mark – the structure of service, the freedom of travel, the emotional storms and the slow return to calm. Each has taught me something about contrast: light and shadow, strength and vulnerability, chaos and stillness.
Those contrasts now live in my art. They appear in colour and movement, in layers that reveal both control and release. My paintings are not about perfection – they are about the beauty of being shaped, tested, and transformed. An example of this can be seen in my Autumn Ember palette which reflects transformation and renewal.
In the end, inspiration isn’t found in one moment. It’s gathered along the way – in laughter, in healing, and in learning to let life flow as freely as the paint itself!
Finding Inspiration in the Everyday
My inspiration rarely arrives as a grand idea — it’s quieter than that. It seeps in from the world around me: the shifting seasons, the textures of landscape, the hush of mist or the glint of rain on stone. I find stories in the natural world — in weather, water, fire, earth — and in the creatures and colours that move through it.
But I’m just as drawn to the unexpected — the rich teal of a feather, the deep berry red of a silk bra in a shop window, the soft reflection of light through glass. Those moments stop me, make me feel, and that’s where a palette begins.
Each colour I choose carries memory and meaning. Together, they weave emotion and environment — the pulse of experience meeting the rhythm of nature. That’s where my art lives: between what I see, and what I feel.
Blushing Ferns and The Unfurling, really showcases the inspiration from nature and the world around us if we just take a moment to stop and look., they both use the Botanical Bloom palette and yet are so different.
Finding Inspiration in the Stillness
Inspiration doesn’t come when I’m rushing. It finds me when I slow down — when I’m still enough to notice the world breathing around me. If I didn’t stop to stand in the garden, to just be for a moment, my mind would stay closed. The stillness is what opens me up.
It’s easy to be too busy to be inspired. When life gets loud, creativity hides in the quiet corners, waiting for space to return. I’ve learned that I need grounding to receive — feet on the earth, heart unguarded, mind steady. That’s when I begin to see again: the curve of a fern, the weight of a storm cloud, the shimmer of colour caught in unexpected light.
A Key example of this is in my Winter Blue’s palette and recently created Frozen Reverie piece, taking stillness in the chaos for reflection and introspection.
My art starts in those pauses — in the spaces between doing and being. That’s where inspiration waits, patient and wild, ready to be found.
Sometimes stillness is the best movement
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