Mark-making of any sort has been a favourite activity of mine from early childhood and through into adulthood.

 

After several happy years in the world of design, I made a series of career moves, gradually taking me away from painting. I kept my brushes ready for occasional action at weekends and on holidays.

 

Rather than declining, the urge to paint and draw increased during my latter years working in the NHS. I think I always knew that when I finished with paid employment, painting would become again my main activity, and it has.

 

My subject matter is quite varied, but I am particularly fascinated with water, with trees and with people. I am guided by an appreciation of colour, pattern and form – and trying to make sense of a quote from a former tutor, Joe McGill, that “painting and drawing are a search for the truth.”

 

The search continues !