The day starts ….

…. and the old clothes go on…freedom to get stuck in!! My studio is a large garden shed with double doors flung open in the summer and a blow heater and lined ski boots on standby for the winter! It is my favourite place to be.

I started with figurative work which over time has loosened up and in some cases now reaches abstraction. Mine is not a literal interpretation but a search for significant aspects.  I am on the hunt for the essence….the fire.  I want to express my own style and not be bound by the chains of conformity and expectation 

I work quickly and instinctively to get the first marks down. Everything is exciting to me …..the consistency of the acrylic paints, the flow of the inks, the different marks of crayons, sticks, and fingers. It is after this start that I make more considered strokes enjoying the frolicking of colour and texture….the enrichment that surprise and happy accidents bring…the disappearing, the RE-appearing……the introduction of interesting bits of paper/print, …. the laying on, the sanding off,… rotating the canvas…..the back and for/the coming and going of this conversation with my work.

A painting can spend days inside my home, me passing it every day until, suddenly …. Ah THAT’s what it needs…. STOP!

Ideas come from newspapers /magazines/ my own photographs/images in my head from years of close observation, These are then focussed in on structure, light and colour. The middle of the night has turned into a good time for new thoughts - hastily scribbled down in the dark on paper scraps.

Exhibition History

My paintings are found in many different parts of the world including the UK, Europe, the Middle East, and Australia. I have shown and had my work selected for the Society of Women Artists, Royal West of England Academy, Royal Society Of Birmingham, and Shortlisted for RA Summer Show.

Exhibitions have been:

2023 - Gardens Gallery, Cheltenham

2022 - Sixteen Gallery, Montpelier, Cheltenham
2022 - Elmslie House Malvern
2022 - The Parabola - Cheltenham
2022 - The Broadway Open Prize Exhibition

2022 - Worcestershire Open Studios