Short, sweet, pithy and palatable

Me, Mum, artist, writer, poet, maker, Mid-Wales dweller.

Middling, particular, riddling and pretentious

Me, Mum, artist, writer, poet, maker, Mid-Wales dweller.

Professional daftswoman.

Nerdy wordsmith. Playful, experimental, pernickety artist.

Famous everywhere except anywhere. Internationally acclaimed in obscure, barely visible, microscopic circles.

Run on ideas. Sometimes beyond me. Make them happen anyway.

One-woman band. Multiple, simultaneous hat-wearer.

Rubbish boss, recalcitrant employee = independence suits me. Panicky when wings clipped.

Dreamy. Speedy. Mentally sharp. Emotionally slow. Porous. Amoeba-like sensitivity. Terrier-like tenacity.

Mercurial, fickle, riddling, roving.

Occasionally wise, mostly silly. Always weird. Sense more niche than common.

Passionate, pedantic, perfectionist.

Idealistic, unrealistic, fiscally irresponsible, creatively ambitious.

Wildly unfeasible. Totally do-able.

Chaotic. Anal. Bonkers.

Long, wittering, wordy and earnest

I’m a contemporary artist, writer and award-winning poet - working under the moniker, ‘On The Wing’.

50% earnest bard, 50% utterly daft: words are my craft, art - my play and I combine the two in a multidisciplinary way.

I write, draw, print, paint - and these designs become paintings, prints, cards, bags, books, t-shirts - everything’s a potential canvas.

I also perform my work (poetry), often fantasise about giving (TED and other) talks, frequently dream up (and make manifest) large installations, as well as (actually) work on an eclectic variety of private commissions. I also run a range of creative workshops in schools and at festivals and other events.

My visual work is characterised by comical slogans and wordplay, bold use of colour and  a ‘naif’, avant-garde style which reflects my playful, divergent spirit. Thematic preoccupations with humour, light, gently flipping perspectives and mischievously challenging received wisdom - are threaded throughout.

I’m particularly interested in tinkering with words and shining a torch on how words are used - and mis-used - especially within the public domain.

I’m a tinker in general and more widely too - upending things, playing about with them, considering how they might be better understood upside down, or on their side. Flipping perspective has always struck me as productive pursuit.

Born in a caravan, raised in the woods, I now work from my studio on the West Wales coast.