Spellbound, I am four, watching the dusty, dry orange, brown earth turn an electrifying ox blood red.  Soon after the rains fell and the parched landscape became a rich patina of intense, phosphorescent greens.  This was the genesis for my mystical love of colours and the healing power of nature.    

 

My life work has primarily been in health, healing, palliative and psychotherapeutic care. I have lived in many places, and wherever I found myself in the world, I continued to express my love of colour and space. I sketched, doodled, drew, and painted whenever I had time. 

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Working in close proximity to those who are dying, profoundly influenced my art. 

The intimate link between life and death,  allowed me to see and hear how the psyche often prepares the way, using the mediums of symbols, colours, light, nature, and space.

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It took years before I began to take my own creative output seriously.  Reviewing my output of many years I realise how these works reflect my psychological, intellectual, and spiritual growth.   These works are a symbolic interface between my psyche and the natural world: images of a growing relationship between soul and nature.

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When I paint, I am asking myself - does the soul of the landscape permeate me or does my psyche permeate the landscape? The creative act connects me to my hinterland and yet also to the world of people and nature.  And so it is that each creative work turns out to be revelatory to me.

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Moving to Cambridge, I joined the Newnham art group, opening up a new world after a lifetime of painting in isolation.

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I have painted in many mediums, but switching to oils evoked a visceral response and I find I am painting with an intensity which roots /connects me to the physical substance of our planet.