Painting is an interaction between myself, the landscape and the paint. It is not always equal – sometimes one element will dominate over the others. Each painting becomes a kind of reverse excavation, building up and scraping back texture, layering with glazes and scumbles, letting accidents happen, until there is a complex surface that expresses the mystery and energy of the natural world. I am not trying to make a representation, but to allow the viewer to recognise something of their own experience in the image. I have been influenced by my travels, especially through Spain which I visited often as a child.
Its Moorish gardens left a deep impression on me, and I go back over and over again to immerse myself in those little paradises. But I also love the wild landscapes of Britain, and have lived in Devon, Oxfordshire, Cheshire, Scotland and now Cornwall.
Selected Exhibitions and Commissions
2015 Collider, PZ Gallery, Penzance, Group show
Battersea Affordable Art Fair (Columbia Road Gallery)
Chapel House Hotel, Penzance, group show
2014 Death & Transition, Gabriel Fine Art, London, Group show
2013 Dulwich Festival, Artists’ Open House
2012 FSA, Canary Wharf, solo show
Dulwich Festival, All Saints’ Church, group show
2011 Dulwich Library Group Show (SLWA)
2010 Greyfriar’s Art Centre, King’s Lynn, Showcase
2010 Bankside Gallery, Southwark, Group Show (South London Women Artists)
2010 Dulwich Library Group Show (SLWA)
2008 Bid: Ovada Gallery, Oxford, group show.
2005 Mural at Department of Experimental Psychology Library, University of Oxford
2004 Magdalen Road Studios, Oxford, group show
2003 Karstadt, Bonn, Germany, group show
Magdalen Road Studios, Oxford Artweeks. Group show
2002 Magdalen Road Studios, group show
2001 Group show at Bonn Square, Oxford
2000 Ericssons/Vodaphone commission: one oil painting and twelve prints
1999 Solo Exhibition “The Bay of Roses” at Ariel Centre Gallery, Totnes, Devon
1999 Group show “Never in a month of Sundays”, Dartington – various locations, installation and performance
series.
1998 Solo exhibition “Salt Knowledge #2” Birdwood House, Totnes, paintings and installation.
1997 “SHIFT”, Dartington Arts Gallery, Devon. Solo Installation “Salt Knowledge”
1996 Poster Studio Gallery, London. Video, installation and text-based work “Ekphrasis”
1996 Contexture; Dartington College of Arts, Devon, degree show
1995 North Woods, Staverton, Devon. “Heaven and Earth” Forest public sculpture installation.
1993 Ways with Words Literature Festival, Dartington. “In the Beginning” Installation.
Art Education
2015 Newlyn School of Art, Mentoring Course
1993-96 Dartington College of Arts BA(hons)
