Applying paint on canvas to develop a relief surface is how I start a painting, pressing objects I have carefully selected into the paint. Once the surface holds my interest I then start applying colour. The thought and excitement of using colour always results in passionate and gestural paint marks covering the canvas. Then at some point calm returns and I can settle and breathe. Subtle nuances, quietness, relationships between colours, textures and relief are all equal. I paint intuitively until I arrive at a balanced abstract harmony. I am always searching for something that is evocative, suggesting a faded memory, fragments, time and place. Connections and the interplay between movement, pause and stillness are always present. I am inspired by colour, nature and the places I have travelled to. The luminosity of light is a constant fascination and my paintings often have a luminous and opalescent appearance, a soft lustre quality which is slowly developed.  I use iridescent paint which gives a change in hue, a slight colour shift when viewed from different angles. In the early morning light my paintings look quite different to when dusk falls. When you move closer to the painting the colour becomes more saturated and intense due to the iridescent painted surface.I prefer to use my emotional memory to capture mood, atmosphere and a living energy. Linear geometry and shape evolve as I experiment and build up the layers of paint and colour, which become intrinsically one surface. I like to experiment with colour freely, seeing colour relationships developing as I paint. A painting can take many months to reach completion with periods of reflection. I will often re-paint or apply new relief until the paintings establish their own unique personality.

Painting for me is an intimate organic process, a continuous dialogue, one painting informing another.