Monica is a prize winning Kendal based artist and her work reflects a lifelong fascination with dreamworlds and escapism, finding the extraordinary and transporting in the everyday. She is currently exploring depiction of place, particularly the landscapes she is repeatedly drawn to, those of both the Lake District and the west coast and islands of Scotland.. She visits, explores and walks in both places regularly, where she uses a combination of memories, snapshots and pencil and watercolour sketches to create her works. In her paintings, she looks to express the place between seeing, feeling, experience and memory, and loves to connect with the viewer through this unspoken visual language.

Her paintings are worked up in layers, building up different thicknesses to create a sculptural and dreamlike effect. As a painter/printmaker, she enjoys the interplay between the two very different mediums. In her Lino Prints she pushes the possibilities of the process, introducing many painterly techniques to achieve a real sense of feeling and movement.