I don't always know what a painting is going to become when I start (unless I have woken with a vision in my mind’s eye or have been commissioned to paint).

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Being a ‘night owl’, I often paint at night, by candlelight and to music. Once I have set up, music is usually what I seek first, and it often helps me move into a deeper connection with the whole experience of painting.

Then colour, a memory, an emotion or simply the urge to put paint onto canvas can be enough to begin. From there, I follow the movement of the painting and allow it to reveal itself. 

Once in a while, I am inspired by a photograph I have taken – or one that has been given to me – and begin by reproducing it; but most of the time, there will come a moment when I don’t need the photograph anymore because the painting is evolving from it. Sacred Presence is one such painting, having started from a photograph I took of Machu Picchu during a trek. It somehow took on a ‘life of its own’ and evolved into something almost mystical.

I work primarily in acrylics, but my practice also extends into pastel, mixed media and other forms of creative exploration. Colour, movement, light and texture are central to my work, and I'm fascinated by the way a painting can shift in meaning depending on how it is viewed.

Sometimes I see a landscape emerging. Sometimes something much more abstract appears. And sometimes I can turn a painting sideways – or upside down – and suddenly see something completely different.

That is part of what makes painting so exciting for me.

I'm interested in that space between what we think we are seeing and what might be there beyond it – the unseen, the intuitive and the possibilities that emerge when we stop trying to decide what something should be.

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My work has been exhibited in London and the surrounding area, including Parallax Art Fair at Chelsea Town Hall (most recently in July 2025).

In 2020, my painting Flowing River Rise was selected as a finalist in Art Room Gallery’s international juried ‘Waters’ competition.

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And so, I continue to explore where this intuitive approach to painting can take me – following the colour, energy and movement, and the unexpected discoveries along the way.

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Because, for me, Art is Alive.

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