Where I find inspiration

It’s the simple and complex themes of life where human nature and environmental concerns meet. Drawings, painting, collage, sewing, and the use of photography are tools that inspire the imagination from disintegration to reintegration. I work on small scale drawings, paintings and writing before embarking upon a series. This exploration provides a foundation which incorporates memory, fragments of landscape, interior and exterior imagined narratives in microscopic slices of the world in intimacy and silence.
Paintings

Horseshoe

Oil on Wood

The early paintings and drawings demonstrate themes which have remained constant throughout the years. They speak of mystery, a search for community and visual links to inner and outer landscapes.I am amazed how they inform and connect the threads which influence my art practice today.
Drawings

Sitter 1

Pastel on Paper

My drawings are visual notes and sometimes used as a vehicle or a shorthand for ideas in evolution. They can also be complete works executed in a variety of media:  coloured pencil, graphite, collage or found objects on paper and are usually done in series and may take up to a week or longer to complete. 
Art Action

Industrial Landscape

Charcoal on Pastel Paper

A series in the early 2000’s was inspired through a chance meeting with a business person, and as a result, it challenged how I was painting up till then. It raised the level of professionalism, allowing me the opportunity to focus solely on painting for almost two years. The relationship later disintegrated, but I acknowledge even though it was difficult, my work developed in a completely new direction. The experience eventually led to an awakening within myself as artist and person as an emerging maturity developed in my art production.

I dive into the 'flow' of what and where the piece wants to go. My preferred medium is oil on canvas usually, but can be adapted to paper. There’s a richness to the oils and during sessions, there’s a switch in my head and body when I let go, and the paint starts to flow like water, with the sound of the brush in total harmony with my hand and vision for the final piece. Some of the themes that recur is a fascination for cups, vessels any type of bowl or any receptacle.
It's symbolic of the feminine aspect through birth, death, myth and the elements which when mixed, are the crucible of evolution both within the psyche and outside.

Some paintings situate people and things which have vanished from my life. They refer to grief, and honouring those who've departed they pay homage to lost friends, human and animal. It's about the attachments of the heart we form in this life.

Exploration

Inspire Imagination

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I work on small scale drawings, paintings and writing before embarking upon a series.
 A foundation that incorporates lost memory, fragments of landscape, interior and exterior imagined narratives which often depict a microscopic slice of the world of intimacy and silence. 
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