“I believe we need art that transcends the every day. Art that promises joy and enchantment and unites us in our common humanity.”

My work catches the numinous, the spiritual, and beautiful. Making artwork allows me to create unique worlds that resonate with joy and hope – an essential antidote in today's world.

Whether working from observation or from my inner eye (abstract), my poetic-expressionistic style creates atmosphere, drawing you in and encouraging a dialogue between you and the work.  

I am fascinated by colour (=light), form (=space) and movement (=expression). I use these to create living images, constantly refining my craft to catch the movement of the beautiful and my aesthetic feeling. 

From a young age, I've explored other worlds by reading, drawing and painting. For me, painting is both a personal expression and a process of immersion, where I can hide myself in the process of making the work. I explore themes such as being a woman and the environment, often in subtle, indirect ways, so the artwork remains open and free, is only refers to itself (self-referential), inviting multiple interpretations. 

My abstract work, seen by my inner eye, is informed by my study of nature and constant drawing practice; it comes from within and is a response to the world around me. Without an intimate understanding of my surroundings, these works would not exist.

Since studying Textile Design (print) my love of the printed image has rekindled. I print entirely by hand, true to my belief: art is made by people for people. 

I believe in the craft of painting and the discipline of regular practice. Art is a living force - it desires depth and meaning. It comes alive when you engage with it, offering a world of interpretation open to everyone. However, it cannot be so perfect that everything is expressed, it must leave room for you, the viewer, to enter, bringing your personal experiences and insights into the work. 

I am deeply convince art is essential. It is a vital form of human expression, a life-sustaining force that gives you the power to shape your life.

I find many sources for inspiration in nature. When studying nature I am interested in penetrating its very spirit, never fully shown, despite the endless variety of forms. Nature never discloses the whole idea that wanted to take shape. It is this elusive quality I strive to uncover and express in my work, to paint the spirit in matter.

Delving into the spiritual side of nature unveils an increasingly supernatural world, filled with colour and form—the world of abstraction. Kandinsky wrote: "When the artist has outer and inner eyes for nature, it thanks him by inspiring him. It will lead us at last to cosmic feeling, to the music of the spheres." A little later, the artist Piet Mondrian formulated the same experience thus: "We must not look beyond nature, but rather see through it: we must see more deeply, our vision must be abstract, must be universal. Then externality becomes for us what it really is: a mirror of truth."

This is why my portfolio includes both representational and non-representational work. The representational does not make the non-representational meaningless and the non-representational does not make the representational superfluous. They are inter-dependent. We live between the poles of spirit and matter - we are nature, but also spirit. Art is the force that keeps spirit and matter in a delicate living, moving balance.