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I originally trained as a doctor and spent twenty-one happy years working for the health service in England. I’m now a professional illuminator, artist, author and calligrapher using techniques dating back to the medieval era to create new work. It’s been quite a journey!

Home is rural Lincolnshire, in a village dating back to the Domesday Book, surrounded by fields. We’re lucky to be able to enjoy the natural world, which features in much of my contemporary work, so close to home. 

I enjoy re-creating manuscript production techniques, finding old recipes and making inks and pigments as they would have been made in the past. It’s a joy to be able to make a paintbrush, paint, paper…and eventually a book, all created as they would have been before the advent of single use plastic and the petrochemical industry.  It’s a simpler way of life – but so enjoyable!