As a textile artist I felt free to use the dye in a very expressive and abstract way.  But I wanted to have more choices in my work than is really possible with dye on cloth, so I now work much more with oil paint and acrylic paint.  It has been challenging for me to translate that freedom into paint, and I have had to re-learn how to use paint in a traditional way before I felt free enough to experiment.  So my paintings now range from initial studies with focus on looking and learning to much looser interpretations.  I need to do both and I enjoy doing both.  Landscape, horses, people and the abstract shapes I see around and in them are my favourite subjects.

This is a series of large paintings made  in 2018 for my exhibition “A Green Thought”.  I became fascinated by the details of the undergrowth, and the Plum Tree ones are of a tree overhanging my own garden wall.  I tried to detach myself from the overall impression by painting in small grids which became abstract studies of shape and colour.  In this way I managed to retain the texture and the sense of light which might otherwise have escaped me.