Interiors, Wildlife and Beyond.

Since leaving Art College in the late seventies, I have always been interested in the interior world, with the preoccupation of our daily rituals. I love to play with colour and symbolism whilst working with a variety of media — the immediacy of watercolour and the physical qualities of oil and acrylic paint.

Lately, I have been drawn to the outdoors, focusing on animals, birds and their freedom, taking in the disquiet of earth and the need for more response to the changing environment. I wish to express evolving interaction, which not only conveys uncertainty and challenges but also hope.

I have been using mosaic, too, as a solid medium, learning to use the shapes between forms to help convey the movement and expression of the piece, as in brushstrokes. I have also used poetry and video to portray my investigations.

I trained at art college through the second half of the 1970s, and my first national showing came in 1980, with one painting selected for the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition.

I have lived and worked in the Thames Valley for many years now, with most of my recent shows clustered around Henley-on-Thames, Wallingford, Cookham and Nettlebed. Mosaic commissions have travelled further: to Basingstoke Hospital, to Islington, to private gardens.

The practice has been lived rather than rushed. Some years are quieter than others; the work has always shifted with what is in front of me at home.