The Blue Door Painting

Following a career in London I went to the University of Hertfordshire as a full time student on the BA(Hons) Degree in Fine Art. My large painting, 'Present Tense Ronda', from that Degree Show is now exhibited in the University's Fine Art Department, and the large painting 'Diner Party', from the same Degree Show, assisted in my application in taking up full time study for the Masters Degree in Fine Art Practice at Central Saint Martins, London. I worked from a studio in Hackney, London, and became involved in a number of art projects including the development of an original Victorian area of Kings Cross in London. Whilst at the University I worked in the printing department using silk screen and photo-etchings techniques in my paintings. The paintings "Breaking Boundaries", "OldWorld/NewWorld", "The Labyrinth" and "Marks in the Sand", are large paintings which incorporate printmaking. The paintings refer to my experience of working in a childrens' home in Vancouver in the early 1970s. The children were of all ages, and were from very different backgrounds and cultures. Sadly I returned to the UK because of ill health and I did not return to Vancouver until 2010. It was on that flight in mid summer, when travelling over Iceland, and Greenland and the Polar Ice Cap, that I could clearly see the glaciers and the rivers of ice falling into the seas below. These aerial views inspired the first of the "Ice Flo" series.