Contemporary artist | Independent art tutor | Oxford UK

Current studio practice

I make abstract and expressive paintings from the immediacy of visual, acoustic and tactile perception, patterned in the body and the senses rather than words.

No matter how abstract, my abstract landscapes begin in ancient woodland, secret gardens, the solace of nature and embodied experience of love, loss and longing. And cycles in nature - the greening, flowering, decline and renewal - become metaphors for inner dialogues and tacit understandings of different seasons in life and in relationships.

Teaching in Oxford & on Zoom

Wherever you’re starting from, I encourage you to develop your painting by experimenting with observational, abstract and colour principles and intuitive and expressive processes. And with practice you’ll gradually discover your own painterly rhythms and preferences. There is no ‘house style.’

With nearly 25 years’ experience of teaching adults, my workshops are content-rich and purposeful, using my own original exercises and drawing on ideas from great artists, past and present, and diverse visual cultures. I teach in watercolour and drawing media but 95% of the content applies in any paint media and any subject.

Unfortunately, teaching is currently suspended due to ill health.