I've heard the mermaids singing ... Painting

I am a self-taught artist. I am interested in fairy tales and ancient myths. I explore displacement, identity construction, layers of history and memory. 
 I enjoy working with images from dreams and nightmares. 

Presently I work on the ‘From Line to Colour’ project - where I explore the pleasure of colour and line, moving into surrealist automatism which is surprisingly structured when focussing on dreams.
 Recent work: “Floating Islands”. Refugees and displaced people become 'floating islands' in our time - cut off from what they knew and loved. "Longing for HomeS Project" consists of' a collection of photo and poetry' books on the subject of where is my ‘Home’.
In nine publications combining painting, drawing and writing I explore my own feelings of ‘belonging’ within three European countries. I also write poetry, feminist romantic novels and utopian -distopian texts

I often move between art forms.
You can find my novels and art books here: 

I am a trained sociologist with a research PhD