Spring Posy 1 Painting

I have been exhibiting my paintings for more than 40 years and still enjoy challenging and developing my creativity. My oil paintings are worked using a knife over an acrylic underpainting in a free and expressive style.The oils are painted on MDF board or canvas and framed with a contemporary stone white colour frame. The collages are worked in acrylic on canvas with layers of paint and paper collage, which is applied using PVA glue. I frame these with a contemporary white frame. Landscape and still life are familiar subjects, but after visiting Japan my collages in particular are more abstract in style, and my memories are often my inspiration. The papers I use range from handmade Japanese papers to old postcards and magazines. Sometimes the text I find becomes further inspiration for the painting. I have a studio in my garden at home in Dovercourt Essex which I open as part of Colchester Open Studios every September. Open Exhibitions Royal Academy Summer Exhibition- 2009 Royal Institute of Water Colour Artists - 2009 East West Artist and Culture Club, Kiku Gallery, Osaka, Japan 2008,- Lennox Gallery, London 2009 East West Art Award Finalist Exhibition ROA Gallery, Pall Mall, London 2010, 2011, 2012 (Best in category 2D 2012) The Pastel Society- 1993, 1994, 1997, 1999 Society of Women Artists - 1991, 1992, 1993 Laing Landscape Exhibition Regional and London Exhibitions - 1998, 1999 Royal Institute of Oil Painters - 1999 Solo Exhibitions North Peckham Civic Centre - 1978 South London Art Gallery - 1979 (Three Person) The Haste Gallery, Ipswich - 1996, 2000, 2001 Old Fire Engine House, Ely - 1997, 1999, 2001, 2003, 2005, 2007, 2009, 2012 Snape Maltings, Suffolk - 1998, 1999, 2000 Digby Gallery, Colchester - 2004 Shakespeare House Gallery, Dedham - 2005 (Two Person) The Rochester Gallery, Devon - 2005 Craole Gallery Niigata Japan - 2011 Sakura Gallery Nagaoka Japan 2015 Craole Gallery Niigata Japan 2018 Everyman Gallery, Chorlton, Manchester - 2012 The Minories Galleries Colchester 2016- 2019 Artist in Residence Burton Agnes Hall, Yorkshire - May 2004, June 2005 Colchester Open Studios - every Year in September Galleries Regularly Showing Work Lime Tree Gallery, Long Melford, and Bristol Old Fire Engine House, Ely Shakespeare House Gallery Dedham Signet Contemporary Art Chelsea, London The Art Agency Esher Surrey The Queen Street Gallery Neath Wales Collections Norwich Union (Aviva) Headquarters