So, where did you grow up? I grew up in Hawley which is in Surrey but there’s nothing there at all. It's like charity shops and pubs.

How long you've been skating for? Two years but I got my board, maybe like three years ago. But yeah, I got it, but I didn't skate on it straight away. It was just kind of there haha.

Do you feel like Manchester maybe got you into skating more so than where you lived then?  Um, yeah, I didn't skate at home like, there was skaters there but there was no skate park. And I didn’t skate at uni in Kent, so yeah I guess it was Manchester.

Do you have a favourite skate spot here in Manchester? I like this park Seymour skate park

Do you feel like there's a big female skate scene here in Manchester? Yeah, I do actually and I think it's growing a lot more as well, like, it seems each month there's like new faces like on the scene.

I’ve seen that you're an artist. Your work is really cool, very bold and detailed. What kind of art do you make and what is your main point of inspiration behind it? People always ask me like what type of illustration I do. I don't really know how to answer that question because it's not like I work for like articles or anything, a lot of a lot of the work is just my own. But I guess it's just weird, wobbly people and creatures, and I'm like really inspired by nature and the body and dreams and your like subconscious desires and things like that.

I love your tattoos, they remind me of you drawings. Yeah they’re actually all my designs, I did them on myself, thats why they look a bit shit!

Does your art and skating ever cross over? Yeah, they definitely do, and I found out quite a lot of artists through skating, you know like graphics on boards and stuff. And also just the people I meet like a lot of skaters seem to have that kind of creative side to them. like a lot of them do like photography design or like film or something. There’s always people to meet, to get new contacts and stuff like that.

Well, it is a lifestyle sport, so in a sense of it is I feel like art is a big part in skate culture. Yeah definitely

I saw you’ve done some of your illustrations on decks, can you tell me bit more about them? They're just like, recycle old boards that I collect, a lot of people snap their board when they’re pissed off so I just go round and collect them, I sand them down, recycle and reuse them! I usually just sell them on after.

The art world is very male dominated place too, do you find it hard being an emerging female artist today? I don't know if me being a female makes it harder for me, I don't see that as an obstacle for myself personally.

Do you hope to continue combining your love for art and skating in the future? Yeah definitely, like I'd love to design a series of decks or do some like t-shirt graphics, collaborate with a skate company 100%

Skate culture is appropriated a lot in fashion, do you feel like there is anything fashion brands/ companies can do to help female skaters gain visibility? Just to support them, like get more pros out there. Sign up more female artists, you know, just get them out there. Promote them a lot more and accommodate for them more, because yeah like you said they have that platform and they’re not doing anything about it really. Which is mad because from like a business point of view, money, like thats so much man. Even with just clothing and shoes, I can't go to a shop and buy shoes myself like skate shoes. Yeah, because I'm a size four, and the only ones they’ll stock are absolutely hideous, like kids ones, which is alright because they’re a little bit cheaper, but yeah, they don't really accommodate for women skaters in that sense.

What do you hope for the future of the female skate scene?

Just get bigger.

bigger. better. Louder.

Yeah, just want to see more women, yeah and I like getting the praise they deserve. Yeah and like making the same money as guys.