I studied art in London for a number of years, exploring textiles, fine art, sculpture and photography. I was hugely inspired by the human body and how it could be represented to explore ideas around experience and memory. Training as a dancer instilled an awareness in me of body memory and my early sculpture and photography work focused on the relationship between the psyche, body and experience. I explored these themes through body casting, putting them in relation to inanimate objects, such as doors, windows, and chairs to further consider the psychology of attachments and how human beings relate to one another.
My interest in the subconscious, dreams, communication, and the psyche were all there at the start . It was an extremely intuitive journey exploring my own childhood experiences through different mediums and making sense out of the complex tapestry of human relationships. Some ten years later I decided to return to University to train as an Art Psychotherapist. I embraced painting and the idea of spontaneous expression and this opened up a very different creative dialogue for me. The paintings in the gallery shows some of the work I have created over the past few years. My art is significantly different from 10 years ago and I now work more intuitively with elements of uncertainty and accident within the whole creative process.
Painting is an attempt to come to terms with life. There are as many solutions as there are Human beings". George Tooker
The angel of art saves the day, flying through the skies of the unconscious and onto the page. The process by which these images are born mirrors the way a child plays; undisturbed and in the moment. She creates, destroys, takes risks and defines…with faith and excitement she embarks on the journey...mixing colours through feeling rather than thinking; experimenting with alternative ways of application and allowing quirky accidents to be important parts of the process.
…'Intuition and alchemy' are the invited guests to the creative space.