Finding the calm after the storm Painting

As an accomplished painter spanning over 25 years, with a catalogue of private and corporate collectors, I have collaborated on corporate installations, organised many art projects for schools and art groups and I have led fundraising art projects for charity events. Being inspired by the landscape and the realities of nature, I work in oil paints or watercolour, incorporating many textures and glazes, organic matter such as rose petals, mushroom spores, beach flotsam, leaves and the natural earth. The bold colours, brave brushstrokes and paint spatterings, give an expressionist and experimental approach to my work whilst reflecting the beauty of the living world. With a positive and passionate attitude, informed by a lively and eclectic imagination, sometimes my work is complex and challenging but always pervaded by a sense of fun, ultimately reflecting the beauty of our natural world. Artist Statement – ‘It is important to remember how beautiful our natural world is and I take my inspiration from everything I see around me, expressing this through the medium of paint. My work incorporates many textures and paint mixes including glazes, gold leaf and sometimes organic textures, I am totally inspired by the realities and wonders of nature. I see everything in bright vivid colour and paint with an expressionist element, sometimes verging on the abstract, making my work vibrant and exciting, culminating in a unique and unmistakable style. I often paint ‘en plein air’ and when I am painting, I aim to capture the feeling and the beauty that I find in nature by painting not only what I see, but also what I feel.’ Colours are like words to me’.