About Completed Studios

 I’m an artist, designer and illustrator with a background in textiles and ceramics, now working across a range of mediums.

 After more than twenty years in the voluntary sector including leading an arts charity and a SEND youth voice project, I’ve stepped away from that work to focus on my creative practice.

My work is shaped by lived experience and a curiosity about the world around me. I explore nature, sea life, human forms and abstraction with freedom and openness, letting each piece grow through experimentation and play.

I’m interested in how materials can hold feeling, movement and memory.  My work is expressive and confident, shaped by lived experience and recent life changes. This work gives me direction and keeps opening possibilities.

I work across mixed media, print, and textiles, using materials in a hands on experimental way.  My work is versatile and moves across mediums, styles and forms to explore ideas freely. 

The work comes from paying attention to everyday life observing people, nature, places, politics and the systems we move through. My work can in turn be playful, reflective or making a quiet social commentary.

I work experimentally with materials and layer paint and multiple mediums to build depth, texture and intensity.   I use colour and shape to explore connection and contrast in a clear, direct way.

My 3D training in textiles and ceramics continues to shape how I think through making. I make natural dyes and inks, print and dye fabrics and work with cyanotype processes.

I develop my own printmaking methods in the studio, including gelatine gel plates, carving into rubbers and other soft materials, salt-dough printing, and using discarded food packaging to make collagraphs and monoprints.