My paintings are a response to the changing colours and play of light in my garden, the view from my studio stretching away towards the sea and places I experience while travelling. I work from photographs and drawings, reducing the subject to a grid, then breaking down each square to a series of geometric shapes. I am using abstraction to generalise particular visual experiences: fragmentation of light through trees, the isolation of views and colour through doors and windows, the illumination of the everyday world through positive and negative shapes etc. The sensations and responses I experience are expressed in paint.
I layer and re-arrange the picture surface over time, breaking down the picture plane, the painting becoming a number of paintings, geometric webs and structures each worked over the last in response to the complexity and colours of its predecessors. With each layer I work across the canvass and gradually the painting begins to emerge as the colours harmonise and the rhythms evoke my initial feelings.

I have shown at the Acanthus Gallery in Wareham and at the Royal West of England Academy Open Exhibition. In 2019 I've had paintings selected for the The RWA Autumn Exhibition and for ING Discerning Eye at the Mall Galleries.

I studied at Brighton, The University for the Creative Arts at Maidstone and Goldsmiths College London. I taught for many years specializing in painting and drawing.