My Story

Hi, I’m Bethany — artist, colour, light and texture enthusiast, explorer and former secondary school teacher who has recently taken a leap of faith and swapped the classroom for canvas.

My passion for art sparked early. I was the child who you’d find on the arts and crafts table - always drawing, colouring, doodling... not just in sketchbooks but maths books too or anything that was too boring to not decorate (sorry to my Year 9 maths teacher). I went on to study art throughout my education and completed my BA (hons) degree in Fine Art at Lancaster University in 2019. After graduating, I went straight into teacher training in 2020 (the dreaded covid year), excited to share my passion for art with youngsters and I spent five incredible (and intense!) years teaching art to secondary school students aged 11–19 as well as completing a Masters and being Head of Art for a year. 

Teaching taught me more than I ever imagined — about creativity, patience, resilience and just how much one person can actually juggle at once. I’m deeply grateful for those years. They made me who I am: passionate, hardworking, and now absolutely certain that I want to pursue my own creative journey full-time. If I can handle a room full of 14-year-old boys who see art as their favourite "sit-off", I can probably handle just about anything.

So here I am — stepping away from education and into the unknown, chasing my dream of becoming a full-time artist and explorer. I’m about to head off on an adventure through South East Asia and Australia, and I can’t wait to see how these new experiences inspire the next chapter of my work. I hope you follow along with me on my journey.

Thanks for being here — I’m so excited to share this journey (and my art) with you and if you do like one of my pieces so much so to purchase one, then thank you for helping this little daydreamer's fantasies become reality.