About​

My home is in Denmark / Kwoorabup, a temperate rural corner of Western Australia with large tracts of wilderness bordering the Southern Ocean. Having emigrated from Britain as a child, I have always yearned for a sense of home and belonging - but art has become a way of connecting to the land, wherever I am. Increasingly, I find myself paying my silent respects to the traditional owners of this land - past and present - as I walk and sketch along its rocky and often wild coast, and through its mosaic of heath, wetlands, and tall forests. 

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This experience is transcribed to works in my studio. My first love is the fluid, elusive and infinitely suggestive medium of watercolour, but I enjoy using gouache, inks, and water-soluble wax mediums. As well as working on paper, I challenge myself by using water media on board primed with semi-absorbent gesso – surrendering a lot of control in the process. 

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I am drawn to the romantic tradition of landscape painting and the interplay between solid forms and fleeting moods conjured by light and weather. I am sustained by my Christian understanding of the spirit incarnate in all things, and grieved by the ecological disasters accelerating in my lifetime. My art holds dear the intricate particulars of our world, and honours the powerful elemental forces that shape it.

 

Butter Factory Studios 

I am a member of an artists' co-operative in central Denmark, operating a gallery and shop featuring the artists and artisans of the South Coast.

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Hallowell Press

My husband Graham is a published author and retired architect and we have bought together our love for this place, for words and for art in Hallowell Press, combining traditional and modern technologies to produce artisan books.

 

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