As well as being a practising artist, I am also a psychotherapist and energy healer, having worked in the field of mental and physical health for over forty years. Together with a love of nature and landscape, I am deeply connected to emotional processes and the movement, form, light and colour of subtle energies. My paintings are inspired by metaphysical and human themes, such as healing, spirituality, and the unconscious mind. I am permanently open to new ways of creating and perceiving.
I work mostly abstractly in mixed media and I constantly experiment. Over the last six years I have been developing skills in ipad painting and using the ipad as a tool to develop my paintings and photography.
I find most art inspiring but it is certain abstract artists whose work I am most strongly influenced by, eg. Frank Bowling, Lee Krasner, Helen Frankenthaler, Mark Rothko, and Anselm Keifer.
Art qualifications:
- Edexcel BTEC National Diploma in Foundation Studies Art & Design, (2004)
- NCFE Intermediate & Advanced Certificates in Creative Craft in Drawing and Painting (2004)
I have sketched and painted most of my life and attended many adult education classes. In 2003-04 I was a full-time student at Kendal College Department of Art & Design. Since then I have continued my art education through attending courses provided by the high standard network of art teachers in Cumbria, and on-line. I am a member of Green Door Studios artists’ network in Cumbria. https://greendoorartists.org.uk
Exhibitions
Since 1997 I have exhibited in my therapeutic premises in London and Cumbria, and widely in the North West including the Brewery Arts Centre, Kendal, Cumbria; the Alexandra Gallery, University of Lancaster; StudioArts Gallery, Warrington, Cheshire; Up Front Gallery, Penrith, Cumbria; Farfield Mill Arts & Crafts Heritage Centre, Sedbergh, Cumbria; Garstang Community Arts Centre, Lancashire; Shippon Gallery, Merz Barn, Elterwater, The Lake District. In London I have exhibited at the Kougan Gallery, N10. A great deal of my artwork has been sold in the UK and several pieces are in Italy, New Zealand, France, Spain & the United States.
