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Bold colours, and graphic marks that celebrate the properties of paint. The joy I get from being an artist is to really see something in all its entrancing detail. Things never look how I would imagine them to look. Light plays tricks and creates unusual colour palettes. My work enjoys the contrast between light areas and dark shadows. 

My inspiration is the world around me, the natural world and particularly the plants that mark the changing times of the year and ancient trees, that have born witness to so many changes during their lifetime both seasonally and due to the intervention of the worlds’ inhabitants. I have thus ventured outside and have begun to paint Plein air landscapes

Creating art slows down the pace and fleeting distractions of modern life. It frees the mind to focus on the here and now. What is right in my line of vision.  I have always been a maker and happiest when I am creating something. I moved to London and went to Art College, first at Chelsea to complete my foundation before going onto complete a sculpture degree at Camberwell Art College, which are both part of the University of the Arts London.I came to painting later. It was always a medium I seemed to have less control over, wet and slippery and not always compliant with what I was hoping for. I can credit Cheltenham school of art as getting me excited by paint. I was gifted a set of oil paints and my most recent work has been applying oil paint thickly to the canvas with a palette knife in a similar process to spreading butter on toast.