With 'Song Soaring on the Wind of Lightness' in Mansel Lacy Church

In my studio

Based in my Dovecote studio in rural Herefordshire, England, I create original vibrantly colourful artworks, inspired by my love and practice of music, dance and rhythm, as well as my passion for travel and the richness of the natural world.

My main aim is to explore the use of layered colour and richness of paint to create rhythmic images with an atmosphere of movement and light - full of vitality and mood, often exuberant, but sometimes quiet and contemplative.

Wherever I am in the world I see many colours, tones, shapes that I put into the paintings. Each work is built up of these memories, developing over months or even years into a painting that I recognise, not of a place, but which becomes itself.

I use acrylic paints of all kinds – thick, fluid, spray, inks – on natural birch wood panels or sometimes thick paper. I like the birch wood grain which, as I begin work, I consider and which directs me each time I start a painting. Sometimes you see that grain in the finished painting which recalls the natural world which surrounds us and is a very important part of the work.

The process of creating a painting embraces not only technique, but also layers of thinking, feeling and the contemplation of the work in progress. Inspiration and spontaneity are always necessary to complete a work that satisfies me.

Each moment as we experience life through our varied senses, I hear the numerous sounds: noting the treble, the bass, the forte, the piano, and the silence. I feel the rhythm, the pulse, the vibrations and the stillness. When I look at the countryside, an object, a figure, I see a harmony of colours, the shapes, the tones, the shadows. I absorb all these moments, culminating in a painting in an abstract form.

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With 'Travelling Again' in my studio!