Q: When did you first realize you wanted to be an artist?
A: A levels. I took art as a subject

Q: What kind of environment did you grow up in, and how did it shape your artistic sensibilities?
A: I grew up in a house full of girls and nobody really wanted a boy, else my father and mother would have gone on. My grandmother was an Irish and was a home maker. Loved knitting and setting the house up and my aunty made paintings. My uncle on the other side was an architect and my grandmother from my mother’s side was also very creative. Cross stitch bed sheets, glass paintings, mosaic and she would get us these magazines and things from her trips to America that had a lot of crafty things to do

Q: What’s art for you, how do you define it?
A: Art for me is an expression and that expression that change from person to person. It’s something that makes you feel good. It’s a detox. All that you feel and can’t say, your artwork can

Q: What role does emotion play in your creative process and finished pieces?
A: A lot. One is an artist as one is sensitive and feel things that a common man can’t. My art carries a lot of what I feel in a particular time and the end piece is also a reflection

Q: Can you walk us through your creative process?
A:A lot of photographers. An indirect way of approach. I love my work to be pleasing to the eye as I don’t believe in a lot of rigidness, so even if the message in dark, the work will have a very indirect way to say so

Q: What mediums do you use in your practice and why?
A: I mainly stick to wasli and gouache and watercolours and recently acrylics but water colour remains my all time favourite. I love how you can layer it and unlayer