I am a Mixed Media Painter working mostly with acrylics, sometimes with additional materials such as gels, sand, pastes, stencils, and paper collage.  I enjoy experimenting with different techniques, for example pouring paint, or use of metallic leaf.   I typically use brushes and palette knives of different sizes and shapes, even household utensils, and work not only on canvases but also canvas boards, wood, and paper.  I express all this in works of quite different sizes, large and small.  Years ago my work began with pure abstract but has recently evolved towards abstract realism.

I have lived in Cowal since 1996 and my studio looks directly out onto the water.  This makes me sensitive to the influence of endlessly changing weather and water on people’s moods and emotions.  I work to capture these energies and feelings in my painting, which has increasingly focused on coastal and water themes.