Having worked as a printmaker for many years, I have returned to landscape painting in oils, acrylic and watercolour. These paintings are often based on very quick pencil sketches without too much detail which leaves me free to interpret them as I wish. I am more concerned with the rhythms and mood of a landscape than detailed representation, and some of the paintings move towards abstraction. I am particularly drawn to dramatic fleeting effects of light and much of my inspiration is drawn from holidays in the South of France and Italy where the light is more vibrant. In Britain the storms of the last couple of years have encouraged me to develop a darker mood in my paintings, which relates to feelings of foreboding about the future of the planet.

Sonia Carvill, reviewing my last solo exhibitionin in the East Anglin Daily Times, wrote of my landscape paintings: ‘Vibrant, joyous, liberating, they are striking in their all-engulfing sense of energy’

I was brought up in Kenya and studied painting at St Martins School of Art in London followed by a postgraduate teaching diploma at Culham College in Oxfordshire. I spent several years teaching art before giving up to raise a family and concentrate on my own work. I was an original member and former chair of Gainsborough’s House Print Workshop in Sudbury and a member for many years of 12PM, Twelve East Anglian Printmakers. Since 1974 I have taught drawing, painting and printmaking in Adult Education, most recently at Wilson Marriage Adult Education Centre in Colchester and Gainsborough’s House. I now run regular private classes and short courses in Assington where I live.

I have had many solo exhibitions including Gainsborough’s House, the Old Fire Engine House Gallery in Ely, the Salisbury Playhouse, the Crypt Gallery in Seaford Sussex, Printworks in Colchester, Weinniger Gallery in Boston USA.