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​When I am painting I feel like there is nothing else, I find myself fully absorbed and it washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.  

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I am compelled to paint.  Since my childhood I have observed nature, hedgerows, trees, flowers, the seasons and the changing light and this has always been my creative daily inspiration.  I have always painted and sketched and enjoyed photgraphy.  I started painting in oils in 2004 and I like to paint what I see and feel to be beautiful and meaningful to me.

 

In the past couple of years I have started to paint wooden boats again. Wooden boats and the sea have always been part of my life.  They connect me to my childhood, family and freinds.  Over the past 20 years of motherhood I have run boatyards, built a 50ft wooden boat as our home and dream, sailed and lived aboard in an alternative way with my 4 girls. I have weathered the extreme highs and lows of two relationships and their sad endings.  Wooden boats connect with the soul, they represent so much, freedom, dreams, hopes, adventure, the journey of life.  They are also this facinating window to the past, all their stories and history.

 

Cornwall is in itself beautiful and magical.  But for me it is where I have been a mother with all its challenges.   I have experienced extreme love here but also darkest despair and found huge connection to the land, sea and stones.   It feels like it has a very powerful female energy in Cornwall, empowering and liberating, free of convention.  It is a place of secrets and beauty, mystery and legend.

 

 Creating a painting for me is a balance between capturing these feelings and impressions whilst still reasoning with formal elements of composition and colour.  I like to try and capture a true likeness of each vessel and the sea in my own impressionistic style. 

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