‘Wildflower Meadow Blue’
Lively interpretation of a wildflower meadow in mixed media on cradled board. Now hanging in an office loft and bringing the freshness of a Devon garden to a work space.
SOLD
Floral series
These can been seen and purchased at the Artizan Gallery in Torquay until 13th April. They were selected to be part of a display celebrating Women’s Art. £420 each they are mixed media paintings size 50cm x 50 cm cradled boards.
‘Blowsy Blooms’ 50x50cm
‘Flower Force’ 50x50cm
‘Floral Dance’ 50x50cm
‘Wildflowers’
A series of 6 paintings in acrylic and mixed media on cradled board.
Wildflower Series
This lively, colourful series was created in response to the vibrant surroundings I was privileged to enjoy during my Art Residency in June. The weather was glorious and the energy generated by all the Spring growth was palpable. Days were long, nights were clear and star filled. Studio time was peaceful, uninterrupted and stretched out over several weeks. I was neck deep in the wildflower meadow surrounding the house. Almost inevitably what emerged was floral and wild.
Three are sold but three are available from my shop and the Yealm Art Society Spring Sale 19th-21st April. They are mixed media on cradled A3 boards framed in white St Ives frames. £295
‘Look more closely’ a pollinators’ eye view of wildflowers.
‘Flower arranging ’ a colourful collection of flowers and found objects.
‘Bee flower’ Who are flowers for? Our insects!
SOLD ‘Buds and Flowers’
SOLD ‘Daisies Rule’ happily hanging in purchasers home.
A selection of the ‘Wildflowers’ series exhibited at ‘The Green’ deli and café at Newton Ferrers.
Framed in bespoke St Ives frames.
‘Fishing Gear’
A series of 3 mixed media on cradled board. A4 size framed in bespoke St Ives frames.
'Fishing Gear'
A series of 3 paintings started at an annual art residency and completed back at my studio. These acrylic/mixed media were inspired by watching the harvesting and preparation of oysters, the shore side industry surrounding the beachside oyster bar. Acrylic/mixed-media
‘Fish finder’
‘Unloading’ SOLD
‘Oyster Farm’ SOLD
‘Port Town’
A series of 3 mixed media on cradled board. A4 size framed in bespoke St Ives Frames
3 paintings revelling in the vitality and character of a bustling port. Watching visiting yachtsmen, liveaboards and fishermen about their daily business. Acrylic/ mixed media.
Last in the series, ‘Café Culture’ collage on A4 cradled board. In St Ives frame.
‘Mooring Up’ SOLD
‘Harbour side’ SOLD
‘Cafe Culture’ SOLD
‘Immersion’
A layered, abstract exploration in acrylic and mixed-media on canvas board. 60 x42 cm £280 SOLD
Charcoal Drawings on Paper
I love exploring the different shades and textures possible using charcoal, exploring the play of light and dark. Whether it's blending tones to show delicate details or using strong strokes for powerful contrast, charcoal drawings have their own unique beauty.
NB Photographed after framing so there is some distortion from reflections on the glass.
Landscape triptych
‘Sheltering from the heat’
‘Meeting in the Woods on a Snowy Day’
Semi-abstract landscape studies
‘Holding Noss in my thoughts’ SOLD
‘Remembering Noss’ SOLD
SHAF Arts Trail presents me with an opportunity to show a new body of work at the Art Hub in Newton Ferrers. The culmination of a year's work, it is a delight to hang them all together for the first time in public. Those of you who follow my Instagram account will have seen snippets of the pictures and information about my inspiration and process. Some were painted at the ‘Chicken Shed’, others in my own studio and still others on the coast of Brittany . If you would like to know more about this current series, my sketchbooks, current lines of enquiry please sign up for my newsletter. Or visit during the Trail. This year between 18th-27th October.
Flux series
‘Hovering’ 84x60cm
‘Nourishing’ 84x60cm
‘Merging’ 84x60cm
Flux suggested itself as a title. It encapsulated my life for a period of two years as I contemplated moving from my riverside home of 20 years. There were compelling reasons to move but the climate for selling houses, always a changing one, was undergoing a period of uncertainty. I was consequently in a state of limbo, unable to consider where I might settle in the future and unsettled in my current home.
It caused me to consider what home really meant to me, where my sense of security derived from and how to endure in the ‘flux’. Out of this period of reflection three large scale paintings emerged. Hovering’, Merging’ and ‘Nourishing. As the titles suggest they are about states of being, which are dynamic and ongoing. They have energy but also a sense of peace, balance and well-being. Life is a dynamic state, these paintings are my response to its challenges, beauties and uncertainties.
There is a childlike joy, which never leaves you, in peering into a rock pool. Waiting still until a shy crab or blenny emerges from the canopy of brightly coloured weeds. Watching near transparent shrimps, jewel anemone tentacles waving. But life in this liminal region is already tough, how will it fair with the temperature rises predicted?
These tiny precious ecosystems, so familiar and precious, are threatened.
My paintings are memories, feelings evoked, wistful representations of rock pools. Inspired both by local beaches and by reading ‘The Sea Is Not Made of Water: Life Between the Tides’ by Adam Nicolson
As he writes
‘Life is tidal, full of loss and arrival, a thing that makes and ebbs,”
A reminder to us of the fragility of our little ecosystem.
Why Rock Pools?
Rock Pool Series
This series was exhibited as part of ACT with the Arts Climate Festival to raise awareness of the effect of climate change.
Sherborne House, Courtney Street, Newton Abbot
22nd June-29th June 2024
Currently exhibiting at ‘The Art Hub’ Gallery Newton Hill, Newton Ferrers and at The Green Café.
‘An Octopus’s Garden’ A3
‘Shrimp’ A3
‘Crab’ A3 SOLD
‘Winkle’ A3
‘Waving’ A3
‘Squid’ A3