The Journey (2024)
"Go as close as you dare and bring something back" - John Berger on Creativity
This quote highlights the value of the creative experience as an opportunity for growth. It inspired me to think ab...
The Moon is You (2023)
"An artwork is of course the accounting of the visible world but it is equally an accounting of the invisible world" - Richard Tuttle
Language and painting are inextricably linked to our perce...
Even When I Thought I Knew (2022)
"If you put in years, you realize how little you grasped at the start, even when you thought you knew." - Rebecca Solnit
I found the quote above powerful and intriguing. It put into words a feel...
Vigil (2020)
This series was tied in with my reading 'Kindred: Neanderthal Life, Art and Death' by Rebecca Wragg Sykes. Her extraordinary forensic interpretation of remnants of who Neanderthals were and how they lived moved me tremend...
Under a Peaceful Sky (2020)
In 2002, my family and I moved to Oman from London. Here, under a peaceful sky I was able to start painting again. The calm pace of life and proximity to mountains, water and open spaces nourished me. My work began to de...
The Forest as a Dream (2019)
Inspired by the book, 'Gossip from the Forest', which explored connections between fairytales and forests (Maitland, 2013) I started thinking about the forest as a universal platform for magi...
ANTIDOTE (2019)
Being creative has always been my way of processing, interpreting and reconstructing my world. 'Antidote', my current series, explores how my work practice can restore a sense of self in times of ...
FRAGRANCES (2018)
This series was inspired by botanical illustrations from the medical folio 'Khwass-Al-Ashjar', one of the earliest Islamic manuscripts translated from the Greek 'De Materia Medica' by Dioscorides...
HUMAN-in-RESIDENCE (2017)
Initially I was interested in exploring the condition of an individual residing in a given context and what my interpretation of a 'human-in-residence' might be. I soon realised that I had happ...
SONGS OF SPRING (2017)
An exploration of music was the starting point for this series. I wanted to see how nature-inspired compositions from different cultures could reflect a common human thread. Interested in exploring both the famil...
EARTH IN MY BONES (2015)
Painting is the part of me that dreams, and accessing that part equilibrates my practical nature. This series reflects an internal topography I have started scratching the surface of, a no-man's land in time and space. <...
THERE IS BEAUTY YET (2014)
Nature and colour have always been defining elements of my world view; whether energetic or calm, subtle or flamboyant, the natural world commands my attention. The process of layering, staining and mark-making allows me ...
A MOMENT OF GRACE (2010)
This collection is an acknowledgement of Mercy; within its parameters fall incomprehensible questions and heart-bursting celebration. Light cannot banish the dark, there is no easy victory, but one can always choose which...
