A view through my window.

Today was clean up day as I went about organising the studio. I had been working on so many pieces that I needed to find order again. This is the view through my studio window at the end of the day. I had a little time to play with ideas. I made up a concentrate of...

So many starting points…

There are so many starting points and I am surrounded by ideas. I use watercolour paper as a pallet  to create a starting point. So much easier once the page is no longer white. I add random scraps of collage from the studio or an accession all stencil , until an...
Where the wild things are calling

Where the wild things are calling

There are moments in time when you know something has changed. Not something apparent to others but something unseen and un-named. I find myself doing a lot of exploratory pieces that are looking over there shoulder. Looking behind at something or towards something....
Journal play girls

Journal play girls

The Darwin trip was amazing and I got lost in the stories and words. Today was the first day back in the studio for a short time. Too much going on at the start of a new term. Here I the works I explored while away as well as an A3 piece I was working on today. All...

One step forward…

I always feel that the challenge of painting a face is an amazing push and pull of re shaping. The continual questioning of each mark as the image takes shape. Do the eyes match up. Does she capture that spark or do I need to keep working over and building up the...