I would like my work to be an invitation to deepen our experience of being alive.

I am an artist and animist based in North Wales. My work explores the imaginal, that territory where image, symbol, intuition, landscape and the more-than-human world meet.

Painting, astrology, tarot and oracle may appear to be very different practices, but increasingly I understand them as different ways of approaching the same questions: how we find meaning, how we enter into relationship with the world around us, and how we recognise what is asking for our attention.

I make art. I create oracle decks. I give readings. I work with images, symbols and stories to explore the things that happen to us and how we experience the world.

In many ways, creating The Oracle of Animal Soul Medicine brought these different strands of my life together. What began as individual animal paintings gradually became a meeting place for art, animism, intuition, symbolism, writing and more than a decade of lived experience and practice.

I hadn’t necessarily set out to make something that contained so much of my life. Looking back, I can see that it does.

Through painting, astrology, tarot, oracle and animistic practice, I try to create space for a deeper relationship with the world around us, with imagination, and with the parts of our lives that aren’t always easily explained.Different practices, perhaps, but for me they all begin in the same place:

Paying attention.

My background is in art and design. I trained at the Royal College of Art and spent nearly thirty years working professionally across art, music, fashion and design, collaborating with internationally recognised musicians and brands including Led Zeppelin, R.E.M., Paul Smith, Levi’s and Rough Trade Records.

Alongside that creative career, another practice was developing.

I have been reading tarot since 1997 and over nearly three decades have read for people around the world, across Britain, Europe, North America, Australia and Asia. Along the way, readings have happened everywhere from Tokyo hotel rooms to galleries in Greece.

My spiritual practice developed through more than a decade of Druidry and many years of animistic and shamanic practice, including journeying, psychopomp work and training in sweat lodge ceremony.

Over time, these apparently separate strands of my life began to converge.

Art became a way of listening. Symbol became a way of thinking. The natural world became less something I looked at and increasingly something I understood myself to be in relationship with.

Today I am particularly interested in the imaginal and in the ways images, animals, symbols, dreams, landscape and intuition can carry meaning that cannot always be reached through literal thinking alone.

I don’t believe everything needs to be explained.

Sometimes an image asks us to stay with it. Sometimes a landscape changes us. Sometimes a symbol arrives before we understand why it matters.

My work begins with curiosity rather than certainty.

That approach now runs through my painting, readings, writing, workshops and The Oracle of Animal Soul Medicine.

After many years of gathering techniques, traditions and ways of understanding the world, my practice has perhaps become simpler.

Pay attention.

Stay curious.

Don’t rush to explain everything.

And notice what happens when we begin to look at the world as though it might be looking back.

Come and sit with me for a while. Let’s look at the world together.