Her current work represents a visual paradox of landscape and body. "They are a personal integration of myself within the landscape"

The work produced is in direct response to a solitary week of walking and climbing in North Wales. "Whilst there I experienced fear, euphoria, wonder and a heightened sense of self".  

My mind doesn’t generally have the opportunity to wander. Reality and normality, or life, has hardened it until it is set, rigid, unable to osmose. In the studio, painting, there is a moment that I connect to something deeper. Jung described this as the collective unconscious. I connect in a way that enables me to break free from the constraints of everyday modern life.

 

Over time my work has become collectedly intuitive, the colours and line have become distilled and have gained strength. The aesthetics are derived primarily from a direct visual experience an autonomous realm of signs suffused with memories of nature. They issue finally in a depiction of subjective feelings and sensations, mental reflections of artists experience of reality. I have strived to imbue honesty in my work, it has to come from within, have integrity for it to be successful.

 

The developed line is important in my work. The line is located in a particular place and time, it is imbued with spirit and gesture the line I feel is inherent in me, of me, has great integrity, the line re-animates forces of emotion, ideas and feelings. Twombly describes his line as fetish, having a power as an amulet would have. I have begun to understand the power of my drawn line; it is imbued with memory and strength. The line emanates from my nervous system, it then passes through my hand into the pencil and onto the canvass, it is automatic, transforming into a tangible visual experience.

 

My canvasses consist of several realities, a multiple experience of space, colour language and form. These realities depending on how they are integrated convey different meanings, or if looked at subjectively communicate a myriad of subjective nuances. The onlooker will make sense of these ambiguous elements depending on his or her personal experiences.