Artist Profile
A Visual Journey
The Art of Seeing, Mark Making and Telling Stories
Art for me is a fusion of contrasts, a process that aims to capture moments in time. It is not only a craft but also the process of looking, and looking again, maybe even “until the eyes bleed”. It is a fusion of hand, tools, materials, eye and our capacity for imagination. Hopefully a viewer of my work then will be triggered to look, but also to see beyond.
I suppose this kind of work is the outflow from who we are, where we have come from and what we hope for. I was born in wartime to pacifist parents in the industrial heartland of the Black Country. Memories of bomb sites as well as the fields and woods of my grandmothers home are still stark in memory. My father was a carpenter and metalwork teacher and many of my early practical and creative skills came from him.
To illustrate my work you will find I have divided this website into four sections followed by my sale and contact details. First a series of mixed media Sculptures inspired by an exhibition of African Masks at Guimares in Portugal - then small linoprints particularly of politicians, recently used as a basis for a WhatsApp Quiz during the Covid lockdowns. Then a selection of my paintings and other linoprints. Finally a page of cards and matching bookmarks.
As a painter I work using oils and acrylics, as a print maker using lino, and as a sculptor using “objets trouve” - an extension of wartime “make do and mend”. Alongside my art I have worked as a professional psychotherapist and so have had the privilege of being a student of our human nature. Thus my work is frequently figurative and has a strong narrative and symbolic element. Common to all the work is the attempt to discover the essence of a subject caught in a moment of time, perhaps combined with an element of irony
I have exhibited at: Hampstead School of Art
Burgh House in Hampstead
London University Women's Club
Royal Academy Summer Exhibition
Caversham Open Studios in Reading
I am happy to undertake commissions and recently made two large oil paintings of the port of Piran and of the city of Ljubljana in Slovenia