Original abstract paintings
‘Boundless’ is part of the Chasing Memories series inspired by Calabria. It has a certain reassuring warmth of recognition, and takes us to a place that we feel we know, but have not yet consciously visited.
120 x 100cm
oil/mixed media on canvas
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Into the Shade is sister to Scottish Trees, and emphasises the twenty years of our absence. How our parallel lives exist without our knowing.
50.8 x 61cm
oil/mixed media on canvas
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Ephemeral – the transience of life.
oil/mixed media on canvas
183 x 122 cm
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Fresh Autumn – colours the mind and brings new adventures. Reassuring us of change and promising to never repeat a day.
43 x 33 cm
oil/mixed media on canvas
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Scottish Trees followed a trip to Scotland to visit my fabulous friend from school, whom I hadn’tseen for over twenty years. Such a special time to be with you and meet your whole family.
The trees are long standing and bring us together after so long. Felt like I saw you only yesterday!
oil/mixed media on canvas
50.8 x 61 cm
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Great memories of the seaside in Falerna. Mum and I watch the storm across the ocean from our hotel in Gizzeria.
oil/mixed media on canvas
61 x 50.8 cm
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A trip with Mum back to her home town. The loud silence of the trees pouring our memories back to us.
oil/mixed media on canvas
50.8 x 61 cm
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Creating Space – the moment we realise we are not the mind. And we are not the body.
oil/mixed media on canvas
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Autumn Rustle is the flying freedom of leaves.
46 x 30 x 5.7 cm
oil/mixed media on canvas
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Night Pinks is the glow of city lights across the water on a night out in Portsmouth.
63 x 43 cm
oil/mixed media on canvas
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Surf brings the enigma of the waves, emerging from the space of no-mind.
114 x 48 cm
oil/mixed media on canvas
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Wizard’s Green is magical, fun and full of delight.
40 x 90cm
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Peaceful Tide II is the steady breath of existence.
76 x 102cm
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Through the Gateways is that wonderful warm feeling when the horizon begins to refocus.
Oil/mixed media on canvas.
61 x 61cm
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Alizarin Crimson is the wonder of the ocean, the breeze that dances with the thin wispy clouds across the sky, and the steadiness of the breakers as they melt into themselves.
60 x 20cm
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Solitary stands alone. It is solid, deep and independent.
20 x 90cm
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Purple Mystery is pensive and calming. It is a safe place to ponder, bringing yourself back to the present.
50 x 20cm
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Moving Depths floats in the depths of mystery and emerges from an inner stillness.
30 x 30cm
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Be Still is a place where confusion and muddled thoughts can exist.
51 x 51cm
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Lightning Volcano was inspired after a seven week visit around Italy to include Pompeii and Sicily where Mount Etna could be seen smoking away in the distance.
102 x 76cm
oil/mixed media on canvas
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Crazy Bubbles is a profound mix of rain sunshine and puddles of emotions. A colourful array of sounds sights and feeling.
oil on canvas
102 x 76cm
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Easy Duo is fruitful and fun. This technique allows the colours to explore each other, pushing and blending into one another and finding a position to settle.
40 x 20cm
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In Spirit is a soft mixture of clouds as they float and melt into one another. Their presence is steady though ever changing, representing the impermanence of all conditioned objects and all living beings. However, there is an everlasting quality which symbolises our spirit after it has experienced human occupancy, and makes it’s inbound journey back home to the universe.
oil/mixed media on canvas.
92 x 93cm Available
Rapture led me out of the often occurring frustrations which happen when a painting comes to a seemingly dead end. No amount of pondering will take you to the next stage – you either ‘step away’ from the painting or persevere – usually both, in that order! The painting then calls you back when it is ready, and literally shows you which brushstroke goes where.
oil/mixed media on canvas
100 x 100cm
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Volcano is part of the Bournemouth Series 1999, and played it’s part in my degree show at Southampton Solent University. The volcanic-like appearance flows with the dark waves of the ocean, along with the absorption of visiting this place in the early hours of the morning.
183 x 152cm
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Night Sea was conceived on Bournemouth beach at around midnight in 1999, and posed as one of the pieces in my degree show. A preliminary canvas was subject to the magical atmosphere that only the ocean at night can provide. This final piece was created once back in the studio at university.
275 x 183cm
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Rimini Heat holds the breath-taking landscape of the Italian countryside and is the fourth painting in the Rimini Series. A very happy space to be in physically and mentally. This months journey around Italy was a contemplative spiritual convalescence.
oil/mixed media on canvas
120 x 60cm Sold
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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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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