Winter Sky Painting

I am a multidisciplinary artist based in Derbyshire with a love of painting. My current body of work is inspired by the landscape and investigates themes of identity, gender, and interconnectedness. The land, sky and sea are my constant inspiration, I work immersed in nature, drawing on the colour, light and form of the world around me. I work with spontaneity and chance, exploring saturation of colour, layering, staining, using calligraphy, scrawl and repetition of mark. The physicality and materiality of the process, painting with my whole body, moving between multiple works simultaneously, allows relationships to develop over time. The visual language I offer is a result of intuitive investigation, drawing on urban and rural landscapes and exploring individual experience, reclaiming space and time, and sharing memories and moments of commonality. Bio I have recently completed my Master of Arts in Contemporary Art Practice at Edinburgh College of Art. I graduated in Painting and Fine Art at Sheffield Hallam University in 1996 and have developed my artistic practice whilst raising a family and working in Education. After zooming from my home studio during the pandemic I decided to return to my artistic practice full time.