I have always drawn and as a child worked with my father illustrating books on medieval history. While still at school I went to life drawing classes at the Ruskin School of Art. I studied illustration at St. Martin’s and discovered it wasn’t the direction I wanted to pursue.
Our two children were born in London and while they were little we had an exchange year in Southern California, where I started to work in a larger, freer style, joining in life classes at Mesa College, San Diego.
We made the formative move to Devon in 1971. I was working in a semi-abstract, expressionistic style on large hardboards and showing in Tiverton and teaching at East Devon College.
From 1982 I began to exhibit regularly with the sculptor Witold Kawalec at Dewsmoor Art, Crediton and also to work in a studio there. We shared exhibitions in London and elsewhere. In 1988 my husband and I moved to Winchester and finding myself without a studio, and wanting to get back into an art school environment I went to Winchester School of Art and completed a degree in Visual Arts. I worked with video, installation and found objects on subjects connected with the body and the passing of time.
Now we are back in Devon and I am painting again and exploring movement, texture and colour in a way which is new for me. But my subject matter is what it has always been, drawing freely on my experience of the figure and the landscapes and seascapes which surround me.
