Poppy currently lives and works in the borderland between England and Wales.

Poppy began her arts career in fashion Illustration and design a decade ago. Since receiving the gift of a double lung transplant she began to favour more abstract and conceptual themes using phototherapy to confront a new transplant recipient identity.

"Art gave me a new way to exist in the world, to be present without my body I suppose. Time spent in hospital on the transplant waiting list I was set apart from my peers. My identity was palliative, as the concept of death loomed larger and my ‘normal life’ became smaller my creative energy became elevated. My body was failing but my mind was racing and striving for existence. Creativity has enabled me to accept my disease as opposed to going into battle with it. I do not ‘fight’ the disease, I lay it out before me and re-shape it very delicately with fine and gentle brush strokes, pencil marks or shutter stops. I work very slowly and meditatively until I feel I have re-formed it and made it beautiful enough to accept as my reality"

Altered states of consciousness and the subjective experience of medical intervention are key themes for Poppy as an artist. In her series of drawings ‘Anaesthesia’ she depicts her personal journey of emerging from general anaesthesia and recovery in ICU. She refers to this experience as a period of spiritual and physical enlightenment.

"my art helps me to understand myself in all states in unity. Sick/Healthy. Donor/Recipient.  Conscious/Unconscious. Reliant/Independent. Artist/Nobody. Dead/Alive.”

Inspired by automatism, surrealism, actionism. Her most influential artists include; Antonin Artaud, Bob Flanagan, Ana Mendieta and the photographs of Arthur Tress. Literature is a direct influence for Poppy, Thomas De Quincey, Henri Michaux and Carson McCullers are among her favourites.

Poppy has sold work to private collectors and worked on commission basis in the U.K. since 2013. In 2016 she won the Helen Barrett award for Creative entrepreneurs and was selected for a U.K touring exhibition "Life in the face of Death" in 2017 with Dying Matters.

In October 2021 she staged her first solo exhibition ‘Achimera: The phenomenology of illness’ at Centrespace gallery, Bristol.