Hello and Welcome to my Art World!
I am a visual artist and a professional Art Therapist. As an Art Therapist I have witnessed the power of creativity and the imagination in healing, transformation, transitions, and health. As a visual artist, I dig deep to see what a painting is telling me. I am inspired by both the inner and outer landscape. My life informs my work.
I love to paint: colour, shape, line, texture, emotion, narratives, and tools are all endlessly fascinating. When I begin a new painting, I gather materials that speak to me, put on music and warm up by painting onto the substrate words/poems/lyrics and colourful, playful marks with various tools. Many layers are added exploring the question “What if?”, each layer responding to the marks beneath – a process of curiosity, discernment, informing and transforming and adding to the richness of colour, shape, texture, and narrative. That is the fun part! Things get more serious as I bring the work together into a finished piece. This is the satisfying part!
