While I've been an artist for as long as I can remember, it took me many years before I became a mural artist and faux finisher.

After spending twenty years as a graphic designer, moving around England, making my way up the career ladder to become design director for a Manchester Communications company, I new I needed a change. I took a company resctructuring as an opportunity to design myself out of a job and spent a year traveling and thinking.

Concluding that I wanted a more hands-on involvement with the design/production process, I returned to college to take a crafts degree, supplementing my income with commercial design commissions. Then, a friend invited me to help him with a faux finishing project.

That was the first time I was able to appreciate the impact decorative painting can have and how people feel when they see their home transformed.

In over 16 years working in the Phoenix area, each project has been another opportunity to help people bring their imagination to life, to bring out the feeling they want in their home. And to make it happen so they can experience this magic for themselves.

Working with homeowners, designers, builders and painting contractors I have helped select colors and where to use them to achieve the desired effect. Providing just the right finsh, decorative detail or mural to suit their style and budget.

Over the last few of years I have also frequently been engaged to repair or extend existing finishes originally painted by other artists who have either left the area or the business. This requires a different set of skills from an original installation project and can sometimes be even more challenging - particularly if the original colors aren't available and have to be visually matched on site.

My aim is to be as unobtrusive as possible and my intent is always to do what is required as efficiently as possible.

I have decorated just about everything. From whimsical laundry rooms and children's bedrooms to traditional formal living rooms. From Santa Barbara style great rooms to Tuscany style farmhouse kitchens.

Wherever your home needs a special touch, I can paint the "WOW!" on your walls.