I draw from a wide range of artistic expressions to write.

When creating a picture, whether with words or images, I engage the skills I’ve squirrelled over half a lifetime of creativity: how to move through classical ballet, how to solve multilevel problems as a student of architecture, how to make by removing with stone carving; how to layer and mask with screen printing; how to combine colour and form through many years as a painter and how to feel my way around things and slowly refining the surface as I do with my ceramics.

I also love sharing these skills.

I experiment with surfaces and mark making.

I am fascinated by marks, particularly the unintended ones made by traditional media. The unpredictable splurge on a piece of paper, the scratch of the old pen, the hard bristle brush removing paint in a pattern. I am drawn to all such “flaws”.

I take colour seriously.

My Ma Dissertation was in Colour and Culture. But what really thrills me is colour in context, colour in practice.

My stories develop their own chromatic space even before the narrative or the characters is completely defined. I am a serious colour collector and take pleasure in mixing paint and cataloguing my own recipes.

I bring my imagined into the physical world.

Wheather a ravine, a home or a nose, I like seeing and resolving imagined space and action in the real world.

The process of feeling the form informs more than just geometry, it also opens new questions, about the interaction of characters as bodies in space.