“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 – so necessary in the world today.

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

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

I have always delved into other worlds by reading, drawing and painting. I paint to express myself, to hide myself in the process of making the work. I explore themes such as being a woman and the environment, but in an oblique manner, so the artwork remains open and free, is only refers to itself (self-referential) and can be interpreted in a myriad of ways.

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 studying my surroundings, I could not make these works.

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

I believe in the craft of painting and regular practice. Art desires depth and meaning. It is a living breathing organism that comes alive when you look at it. It is a unique world open to be interpreted differently by everyone. However, it cannot be so perfect that everything is expressed. It has to leave room for you, the viewer, to enter into it with your personal experiences and ideas.

I firmly believe people need art. Art is a vital form of human expression. It is a life-sustaining force. Art gives you, the viewer, power to shape your life.

I find many sources for my art in nature. When studying nature I am interested in penetrating its very spirit, which is never fully shown, despite the wonderful variety of forms. Nature never discloses the whole idea that wanted to take shape, to become. It holds something back, it is this I seek to find, to reveal, in order to paint the spirit in matter.

Amazingly, delving into the spiritual side of nature opens up an increasingly supernatural world of colour and form: the world of abstraction. Kandinsky says: "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."

That is why there are both representational and non-representational compositions in my portfolio. The representational does not make the non-representational meaningless and the non-representational does not make the representational superfluous. They are mutually 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 living, moving balance.