Poppies below Pen Y Fan Painting

I am a painter who writes stories and poems in between pictures. Painting began as a hobby, transmogrified into a therapy and finally emerged as an obssession. I am a self taught 'Outsider Artist' and an instinctive painter and colourist. I paint my dreams and whatever comes into my imagination. I also enjoy painting portraits. The whole of one's life is to be found in the face. The eyes and the mouth tell all. The face is the landscape of your life.I have a passionate interest in art history and have been influenced by the Renaissance, Caravaggio, the much maligned Impressionists, the Fauvists (especially Matisse) and the Pre-Raphaelites ( to name but a few!!!). My paintings hang in private collections in America, Australia, France, Istanbul, Kuwait, Tunis Oman, Spain, Amsterdam, United Kingdom. I live in the Welsh mountains in two little cottages ( circa 1855 ) knocked through and clinging precariously to a damp hillside with my husband, a poet and writer. It rains a lot in Wales but this makes for a soft, green landscape and a wonderful place to be.