About my work

I hope you find my paintings eye-catching for their vibrant sense of colour and dynamic composition. I paint landscapes, townscapes and flowers and prefer to work spontaneously and in a manner where the medium can flow. I therefore choose watercolours, acrylics and liquid mediums where the addition of water helps to create accidents and surprises that I can make use of. I use unconventional tools like sticks and card to achieve effects resulting in inimitable playfulness. My paintings are free-flowing and my current theme is letting go.

I have a strong bias towards tactile effects and a sensuous expression where visual dynamics and structure are being explored.

Some of my watercolours are painted with a surfeit of water. At other times I prepare my paper in an unusual way using a “half ground” which makes a unique surface to work on. It is highly textured, absorbent and unpredictable and it enables me to follow my feelings and paint from memory rather than dictating what I am going to paint. The results are some very subtle passages of rock face, shapes and geological forms. This instinctive approach gives my work a feeling of a visual experience.

For my acrylic work I prepare a background from different types of paper including newsprint to give me a messy surface to work against. From this mess I establish order and meaning. My subject matter is architecture, buildings, townscapes and flowers using vibrant colours. In this I am influenced by the Fauves and Expressionists like Kandinsky and Nolde.