I started work as a collage artist, but over the last few years I have taught myself watercolour and now work predominantly in acrylics. I still produce two or three collages a year, but they are very time consuming, and completely take over all my space in the studio!

I love to create paintings based on the landscape, but sometimes inspiration just evolves from nowhere.

To break the fear of the blank canvas, I will quickly cover the surface with random colours, inks, pastels, or anything that comes to hand! I am merely laying an uneven surface which I can then work into as I develop the painting. At this stage, I may add a few pieces of hand-dyed paper, and then paint the next layer which will determine the colours for the end result. I will continue to paint, scrape, dilute, draw, until I see the beginnings of the final piece. This is an exciting process, as there are so many twists and turns. As I near the end of the journey, I paint very little, and probably do more drawing with either ink, watercolour, pencil, or an acrylic paint marker.