Cutting and sticking is one of my favourite things to do.

I have spent most of my life surrounded by piles of magazines. In my early teens they were an aspirational glimpse into the rarefied world of fashion; as an undergraduate they were cultural artefacts full of ideas to be analysed and critiqued. Nowadays my precious collection serves as both inspiration and raw material for my collages as I physically dissect and reassemble them.

My work has a playful feel because that is exactly what it is. A familiar, physical childhood activity now doubling as a means of telling multilayered visual stories.

I am inspired by the quiet moments of daily life; years of staying at home full time to raise children taught me how to be present and find beauty in the most seemingly mundane things.

Both my abstract pieces and my more illustrative work feature strong saturated colours and a clean, contemporary style, often laced with a sense of nostalgia. I love blending old and new papers, decades, sometimes centuries apart, shifting intended ideas and meanings into something completely new and unique.

I make each collage entirely by hand. All my fine art prints and cards have minimal digital alterations and are as close to exact replicas of the original image as possible.

I work from my home studio in Lancashire.