About me

My transition from running a small business to becoming a practicing artist was always the dream but arrived unplanned.

Maybe you have a similar story of saying yes when opportunity knocks.

After completing art school while holding down a corporate day job, I started creating artwork inspired by children's drawings as gifts for friends. In 2005, this unintentionally evolved into a side hustle I named Kids With Crayons.

This evolved into the creation of Crayon Chick in 2008, selling handmade designs from craft markets. 15 years later and I had built a retail and wholesale small business brand attending design and trade shows in Australia, New Zealand, London and the US.

I turned to my art practice full time during 2020 and participated in online projects, such as the 100 day project, that cemented my art practice as a permanent way of life.

I started drawing on wild dreams of wide open spaces and everything clicked into place. Every road trip as a child became vivid in my mind, every beach walk, sunset or incoming storm burst from my memories.

Fully based in my home studio, I have kept a core collection of my Crayon Chick designs in the Gift Shop and building a painting practice based on atmospheric and intuitive landscapes.

Travel is one of my greatest passions and will always inspire my work. It connects places that live in my heart with the feeling of being witness to the wonder and awe of nature.

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