After graduating from the University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa, I started and ran a mohair weaving workshop in Lesotho for six years. In 1971 my family and I moved to London where I studied under Cecil Collins as well as attending life drawing at the Royal College of Art and The Prince's Trust. From 2008 I have been studying with Robin Child at his Art Research Centre in Devon, and more recently at the Ballinglen Arts Foundation, Ireland.

 

I have accompanied my husband on his many trips to different parts of Africa, where I painted and drew the African landscape and people. This culminated in a series of desert landscapes which were exhibited in Guildford and London.

 

I have as both aspiration and inspiration the spontaneity found in the drawings of very young children. They are concentrated and direct, paradoxically and uncannily ‘accurate’ in what they convey and totally unselfconscious. But failing that ideal my work is underpinned by the tensions and dualities that exist between figuration and abstraction. I am searching for what I can only describe as ‘another reality’ below the surface of the everyday perceptions of a figure, still life or landscape. The painting may refer to a memory, or be a recollection of a piece of music or poetry. And sometimes it is simply playing with the endless possibilities of line, colour, form and medium on the two-dimensional surface.

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Now exhibiting at:

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Kent Painters Group: www.kentpaintersgroup.co.uk

The Gallery, Little Bedwyn, Hungerford: www.thegallerylittlebedwyn.com

Art in June: www.artinjune.org

Nadia Waterfield Fine Art: www.nadiawaterfieldfineart.com

SEOS (South East Open Studios): www.seos-art.org

SVAF at The Sevenoaks Kaleidoscope Gallery: www.svaf.co.uk

Horsebridge Gallery, Whitstable: www.thehorsebridge.org.uk