I'm a Cheltenham-based artist creating paintings full of energy and life. Alongside art, my other passion is kickboxing. My martial arts gave me the self-belief to take the plunge with my painting. In the same year, 2018, I became a blackbelt and launched my own art business. It also explains why I'm obsessed with movement in my work. I want my subjects to have a punch, a whoosh moment, a sense of being alive. A newspaper journalist for nearly 15 years, I like getting stuck into new challenges and paint whatever catches my eye. Often that’s something in motion, but if not, I enjoy putting my energetic and colourful take on it. Working chiefly in acrylic, I know what I like to look at and interpret what I see instinctively.