π I live in Exeter, Devon. We moved here in June 2023 and I am LOVING getting to know this city!
I travel frequently for photo-shoots and feel privileged getting to know new places and go off on my adventures. Youβll often find me on the road with a good audiobook or podcast on!
πΈ Alongside my work as a personal brand photographer, I have also coached and mentored, sell my artwork, hosted workshops on creativity and self love, and ran a beautiful online membership group in 2020. I am definitely a multi-passionate!
π I became an auntie to the most amazing, peachy little human last year, and life is sweeter with him in it.
π¨ I pour a lot of my creativity into my photography biz, so itβs also really important to me to have other creative outlets. Things can get weird & messy when business+creativity+income are solely bound, so itβs important to me to MAKE for the sake of making, outside of my client work. I paint, make lino cuts, and love trying different crafts like clay or macrame or digital art. I just got really into crochet! I used to play music in a band (with the incredibly talented @thesugarcoatedsisters and @yogaalexi) and I miss that and them a lot!
π§ I love marzipan and eat it in slices like cheese!
π I grew up just outside High Wycombe in Bucks. Before our move to Exeter, my partner and I lived on the edge of Exmoor in deepest West Somerset for a couple of years. I spent four years in colourful Brighton before that, and of course I had a London chapter too!
βοΈ I find myself quoting from the Simpsonβs all the TIME (it was such a big part of my life!!) π
π I used to think I was bad at reading because I struggled to focus, then I realised it was because I needed to read about things that actually interested me! π€― I have too many favourites to list here, but genres and topics I read on most include environmental and social history, race, gender, memoir, and nature / ecological science. Also, recipe books. I love it most when these topics collide, and learning about the intersections of cultural history and the natural world. π
π I absolutely love being in the woods. Old growth woods is my happiest place. Fungi, mosses, lichens, old walls, paths, roads, trees, and the mystery of animal burrows bring me SO MUCH JOY.
π― I hate food waste and genuinely get excited about using up leftovers (not that I honestly always do!)