I’m an artist, I’ve made clothes, had children, taught art and art history and originally trained as a sculptor when I attended art school. I have spent a lifetime engaged in the continuum of making and thinking about making of one kind or another.

My garden and what I grow is a continuous source of inspiration. My enquiry is based on my own view of the world, its influenced by the seasons, the garden my studio is in and what I’m growing, harvesting, eating and composting. Having said that I wouldn’t characterise myself as a painter of gardens – but a painter of parts of things – that become something else.

My approach reflects nature and the cycle of growth, maturing and decay. Each state is a broad visual spectrum. The work is based on a continuum of experimentation, of mark marking, of traditional and non-traditional techniques. Bridging different states is something I think about – botanical and biological, direct and atmospheric, form and shadow, simple and complex, raw and cooked, macro and micro. 

My environment is a space in which these polarities oscillate wildly.