About

A bit about me… I’ve always loved being creative. Art and design was my favourite subject at school, it was the only thing I was really any good at. Coming from a creative family I was lucky enough to have great parents that encouraged me to pursue art and design as a career.

I had no idea what I wanted to specialise in after I had left school, so I took a Foundation Arts, a year long course and decided to take the route towards textiles and surface design.

At the tender age of 19, before my next 3 years studying a BA Hons Textiles & Surface Design Course at Cleveland College of Art & Design (where Sir Ridley Scott also studied design – my claim to fame), I packed my life up into a little case and travelled around Europe with a friend from school for two months. To this day, that trip was one of the most exciting, liberating and memorable times of my life. It set me up for my next life adventure at university.

Having lived in Hartlepool for 3 years, which was, erm… interesting at times to say the least. I moved back to York, where I had recently found a new passion within me. That was music, live music. The next eight years I lived in York city centre soaking up the beauty of the Minster views, hanging out with a wonderful group of creative folk, both musical and artistic. Generally having a good time whilst trying to hold down several mundane, run of the mill, pay the rent jobs. I had various design related jobs which weren’t for me. I had a few Art exhibitions and worked on some commissions for music artwork over the years, but in truth I had lost my way, and passion for art & design that had once burned inside me.

I had given up on being able to use my creative skills to make a living… I met a wonderful man and as I got closer to the big three zero… life calmed. I took great delight in making a cosy home and we decided after 2 years in a very cold and expensive flat in town that we wanted to move to the countryside.

And so in January 2014 we took a leap of faith and moved into a quaint barn conversion cottage called The Granary, where I set up a studio and after two months here looking out onto the rolling hills of the Ryedale countryside watching rabbits bouncing around my garden, getting excited by the chance glimpse of the owls flying around us at dusk, hearing the stag in the hedgerows at the bottom of the field by our garden, and the arrival of 500 odd piglets in the barn out front… I finally re-discovered my passion and with inspiration all around me I decided it was time to mix a few of my favourite things and have a go at making a living from it.

I live to draw. I live to paint. I live to create. I love the Countryside.

Thanks for visiting the page.

Selina x