Beautiful Summer Painting

My work is essentially optimistic, the emotions I aim to convey through my paintings are always positive. I am particularly inspired by movement and light, whether I'm painting trees, flowers or the human body. I trained as a fashion designer and then worked in the textile industry, and the influence of my appreciation of fabric can be seen in my use of colour, texture and pattern. I work on canvas in acrylic, precious metal leaf and resin when creating my tree paintings. All my figures are also in mixed media: I often work in multi-layered collages, adding ink, acrylic, varnish, metal leaf and resin. I exhibit in galleries and at art fairs in the UK and Europe.