I arrived at art school as a painter but quickly abandoned painting to experiment with print, conceptual and performative art forms. I returned to painting in 2019 when Alice, my 28 year-old daughter, died after nine years of treatment for a brain tumour. Alice dabbled with painting and I have taken up the baton from her.
My paintings are always abstract, borrowing themes from pop music, natural forms and mapping. Colour-interactions, shape, tone, mark and structure combine in a complex set of relationships, over time.  Each painting is a struggle between conflicting forces.  Paint is added, pondered, scrapped-off, covered over… it is an iterative, anxious performance.  If there are rules, I tend to break them.

Firth of Fifth, 2024, oil on board, 26x20cm

Hey Ya! 2023, oil on canvas, 80x60cm

Mean Mister Mustard, 2024, oil on canvas, 101x76cm

The Importance of Being Bored, 2024, oil on canvas, 101x76cm