Studio visits
I’m always happy for people to visit my studio - I’m based in Nottingham, UK. Drop me a line here if you’d like to do that.
Galleries
Statement
I’m trying to free myself up in the act of painting.
I've grew tired of overthinking and explaining. I’m breaking my own rules on purpose. I’m choosing instinct over analysis, energy over neatness, and movement over meaning. I want the paintings to feel alive — like something is happening within them rather than being an attempt to depict or illustrate.
The process matters more to me than the subject. I’m not setting out to describe a specific idea or tell a fixed story. I’m interested in what happens when I disengage the thinking brain and let intuition and emotion lead. Sometimes that means things don’t fully make sense, and I’m learning to be comfortable with that.
My titles reflect this too. They’re fragments of conversations about the work — related, but in a general sense, not to any one image. I feel like the words are just another layer of the painting, one that's fallen off the surface and scattered itself about in a random fashion.
At its core, my work is about energy, playfulness, and daring to trust my instincts. It’s about allowing myself to move, to risk, and to stay open.
History
I've been a practising artist for 35 years (at least, I’d rather not look at that too closely). I'm mostly self-taught and don't hold any formal art qualifications. Initially working in textiles and then moving into illustration, in recent years I’ve settled on painting as my preferred medium.
I’m named after the Bob Dylan song ‘Corrina, Corrina’. Currently living and working in Nottingham, UK, originally from Rochdale, Lancashire.
I was an only child with artist parents. Although I was good at art I ended up on a European Studies degree course at Hull University in 1987. I fancied the year living abroad but I dropped out of the course before that happened. I’m not academic in the slightest and the course bored and depressed me.
I went on the Enterprise Allowance Scheme in 1989, I was painting fabric and making it into cushion covers. In 1991 I moved to Hebden Bridge and spent a few weeks on a foundation course at Rochdale Art College where I learned how to do machine embroidery and that’s what I ended up doing for the next 14 years. Eventually I grew frustrated with sewing and fancied printmaking. However that required space and equipment that wasn’t available to me, so I bought a small graphics tablet and taught myself digital drawing with the aim of printing my own greeting cards.
For the for the next 10 years I worked as an independent greeting card publisher, doing the trade shows, getting agents, even landing a publishing deal. However the appeal of drawing on a screen started to wear thin and I realised I needed to create in a more hands-on, visceral way. I’ve always liked to paint and I felt the urge to do more. In 2018 I started doing more painting and wound down the card business.