Original abstract paintings
Fantasy Land is the third painting of the Rimini Series and was conceived while travelling on the train from Milano to Rimini. The heat was easy to absorb as this part of Italy was having an unusually extra hot summer that year, as temperatures soared into the forties (just the way I like it!).
Modelling paste and glass beads are the texture which gives this painting a tactile finish.
61 x 61cm
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Cosy Cream was inspired by the top of a hot chocolate I had ordered in a restaurant. The froth which had mixed with the chocolate was almost too perfect to disturb. The milk had eased into the froth, blending shades of umber and hazel, spreading into tasty creams, fawns and schlor lor lur luurrrr!!! Delicious, wrapping my hands wrapped around this warm little cup of cosiness.
25 x 25cm
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Holiday Dreams is part of the Swedish Series 2012. A blossoming romance led me to Sweden where a beautiful home existed on a magical land by a lake.
This house was surrounded by trees of a vast forest where all types of mushroom and berries grew.
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My World is also part of the Swedish Series 2012. I was smitten with the character of this special place in Upsala, that it inspired a vision of how my own world would be.
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Tree Time shows a walk through the woods in Upsala, Sweden. Trees, mushrooms, wildlife and freedom.
Shown unframed here.
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Frisky also belongs to the Swedish Series and relates to the new human connection in a country I had never visited before. It is a refreshing wave of newness……………and mischievous in parts!
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Often, when I look across a landscape, or through a woodland, or rolling hills or the sky at night, I get a feeling that I am looking at something of which I am trying to remember; as though I have seen it before somewhere somehow. I can’t quite remember what it is that I’m remembering! Until recently, I never knew, though now I have come to know, that I am looking beyond the recognition of the landscape, and am entering the place of energy – beyond form and identity.
33 x 43 x 3cm (framed)
Shown here unframed.
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Icicle Tavern holds the depths of a cold, frosty snowy night. Icy waves and freezing winds mingle with the darkness.
33 x 43 x 3cm (framed)
Shown here unframed
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Night Snow has the fun and magic of winter; driving home to a warm house, building snowmen or watching the snow fall from your office window.
33 x 43 x 3cm (framed)
Shown here unframed
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Medieval Blue is one of those art works where the universe gave a contribution in the form of a ghostlike figure in the top right hand corner which appears to be looking or sweeping down over what’s below. I hadn’t noticed this until a friend pointed it out! Presents from the universe come every so often in my artwork and everyday life, to which I feel very grateful for.
33 x 43 x 3cm (framed)
shown here unframed
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Summer Dreams is the anticipation of the blue ocean glistening under the blue sky with light clouds, that dance like the patterns under your eyelids when you close them.
30 x 36cm
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Irrational has taken busy and bothersome thoughts to the canvas. Not knowing why they have arisen or if they are understood, Irrational allows a place where moodiness, incomprehension, and irritability can exist.
51 x 51cm
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Marble Coffee is a memory from travelling Nepal and India in 2004. A meditation at the Buddhist Monastery ‘Amaravati’ in Great Gaddesden, England 2012, recaptured some great memories of this two month journey in a magical country.
20 x 20cm
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Emerging spring, bursting through the cold dark of winter.
20 x 20cm
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Quietly Confident II followed immediately on from Quietly Confident and shows a continuation of the light illuminating many dark thoughts.
25 x 25cm
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Quietly Confident is a strong piece of work in the sense that I was confident with every brushstroke, colour and texture. It emerged through the darkness on it’s own- I only guided the light to the surface.
25 x 25cm
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Calm and tranquillity pour into and over each other from the steady depths of the ocean.
100 x 50cm
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Absolute relates to how the waves break upon the ocean’s surface that seemingly appear from nowhere. The white ripples of water that emerge from the obscure distance remind us that we exist beyond physical form.
61 x 61cm
Oil/mixed media (glass beads)
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Sea of Chocolate was a piece in my degree show at Southampton Solent University in 1999. It is drenched with the intensity of the power and mystery offered by the ocean through darkness.
It is part of the Bournemouth 1999 series.
183 x 153cm
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Broken is filled with emptiness and confusion. The fleshy colours symbolise an unknown internal inner journey.
39 x 48cm
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Brighter Days is the first painting of the Rimini Series. After a month spent in Italy visiting family, it almost painted itself when I returned to the studio! It was BURSTING with energy and almost on fire as it heated up the canvas and gave birth to the ‘Rimini Series‘.
It is full of the sights, smells, sounds and romance of the experience.
100 x 100cm
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Sunny Moments is the second creation of the Rimini Series. It’s textured surface adds another dimension to the painting producing a tangible understanding of the layers that contribute to this piece of artwork. The bold colours confirm the heat along the inner and outer journey, and the texture symbolises increasing strength.
91 x 91cm
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Petals is a follow on from Broken. It holds a positive clearing space as the petals fall away and unblock the pathway where confusion and emptiness prevented a positive energy flow.
70 x 25cm
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Dreams was conceived whilst sailing down the backwaters of Kerala, Southern India in 2004. An eight hour boat journey from Kochin upon a world of water; junctions made of water; pathways of water leading up to doorways to houses; a truly magical land on water.
Tons of jelly fish; children waving and playing; endless flanks of palm trees lined the periphery; the sky; the sunset; the clouds.
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Also part of the Bournemouth 1999 series, Deliberation was created for the degree show in 1999. It holds the middle distance as you look out to sea through the dark surroundings, at the obscure horizon.
183 x 153cm
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The knowing of knowing.