From her studio in beautiful Cornwall, Justine creates joyful, expressive paintings that blend colour, pattern and memories. Her work celebrates the energy of emotion and even live-time nostalgia felt in fleeting everyday moments.
Justine's bond with art began in childhood. After being adopted, she grew up in Hampshire, her pad of paper and rainbow of pens a constant companion. Art was always her happy place because it allowed her to live within a safe and curated world of colour and joyous imagination.
Years later, after being diagnosed with ADHD and dyslexia, those early creative instincts finally made sense. Her mind was never built for the linear or predictable. It was wired for wonder!
For many years, Justine balanced her painting with family life and work, raising four children while completing remarkable private commissions on canvas and direct to walls, in beautiful homes and opulent hospitality hotspots.
When life slowed during 2020, Justine finally listened. Painting every day became her way of grounding, healing and and expressing joy and with the kids grown up, her full time vocation.
Today, her paintings are celebrations of balance, play and optimism. Each piece captures a feeling, a nostalgic memory, spun into a burst of visual energy rather than a literal scene recreation, allowing Justine’s work to be felt and enjoyed by all. Through her art, she hopes to spark senses of warmth and happiness in the hearts of others.
Justine currently has two collections live, ‘Joy Junction’ and ‘Perfectly Imperfect’ which can be admired in London and Cornwall galleries and shopped directly through her website.
‘Joy Junction’ demonstrates a dynamic interplay between precision, freedom, colour and contrast. The compositions feature bold shapres, filled with meticulously-painted patterns and textures, ranging from structured grids and sharp lines, to more organic forms.
Each section tells its own story, yet they all sit together in harmony, reflecting Justine’s fascination with how order and spontaneity co-exist in life. The pieces in this collection invite viewers to explore the balance between the rules we follow and the dreams we chase, merging them into one vibrant, visual journey.
The ‘Perfectly Imperfect’ series reflects much of what she felt as a younger person, constantly feeling like a square desperately trying to fit into a circular box. Now she’s older, she is reconciled with the perfect vision of her imperfect self.
The thought process behind the creation of these pieces represents her swirling mind, always going of at a tangent, then re-assembling on the canvas.
