This little painting explores painting on the frame so that the painting moves from 2d to 3d and becomes an object as well as a representation.

Little Pine Cone with Lace

Oil On Board

30cm x 25cm

£160 SOLD

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This painting is about rhythm and patterns, the mysterious continuity and interconnectedness of sameness and difference. Every part of the pine cone is distinct from the others and yet folds perfectly into it it to make a unified pine cone. The lace coverers the red paper and in being seen they become one. The folds of the white fabrics make distinct shadows but it is in fact one material.

Pine Cones with Maltese Lace

Oil On Board Framed

46cm x 51cm

£500

I love the sensuality of painting fabric. This small painting is oil on gesso board, mounted onto an old frame. I wanted the fabric to spill out beyond the surface, onto the frame. I am considering framing it again and working into it with free style flowing gestural strokes.

Oil On Board and Frame

54cm x 65cm

£180

This large scale painting combines my passion for the sensuality of painted fabric with the more raw and elemental aspects of poured paint. I wanted there to be a feeling that the raw elements of abstract poured paint to push through the painting of drapery I love the boundaries where different ways of painting meet.. Alison Watt, the scottish painter who I admire describes these blurred edges :

" begins to suggest other things to me and becomes a boundary between abstraction and figuration. I've always found it very evocative and suggestive of the human presence. I think white fabric, in particular, has quite a hold on the imagination." Alison Watt

Oil on Canvas Framed

110cm x 154cm

£500

I approached a neighbour on my street, who had a rose tree in her front garden. I asked her if she could spare me some of her beautiful roses. They didn’t live long once cut, the petals quickly drooped and fell as I worked. I captured their parting moments. I painted this intense ground of two yellows with the the brevity and preciousness of life in mind, the tragedy of suicide and the sorrow of death.

60 x 60cm Oil Paint on Linen

Original Sold

Giclee prints available on request

Wishing for real roses to paint, I stepped out of my front door to find my neighbour, happy with her secateurs, cutting away at a gigantic rose bush that was apparently pulling the building down. I stood puzzling as she shoved the cuttings into a large plastic bag. “Are you throwing those away?” So there it was; a gift with some thorns with which I battled with two dogs on the bus to my studio. Juiced up and rearing to go I put on John Adams; Harmonielehre. So trumpets overhead came into this dimension.

Framed Oil on Board

50cm x 41cm

£450

Valentine’s Sunset

you know the kind, just dazzling

with the street lamps shining all white and innocent

against shimmering Prussian blue, twilight fading

into the passion of violet and red into orange

the colours of burning hearts

the colours of these roses.

Oil on Canvas Framed

80cm x 80cm

£500 unframed

(£600 framed)

John Adam’s “wild nights” incredible music. Being and passionate loving is one of life’s most glorious experiences. Roses are that expression, naturally.

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A cloth with a Maltese cross lace, the vibrant colours behind, making their presence felt and the thorns and orange berries of the buckthorn. Thorns and purity and veils covering something that is vibrant, to me this felt like Easter, the possibility of stillness and joy in hard times.

Oil on Canvas

100cm x 80cm

£1000

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These dry grasses blew into my hand one day as I walked to the studio. The light was bright and the way they witnessed the passing of the summer called out to be painted.

Oil On Board and Frame

36cm 46cm

£250 SOLD

Stolen from a Church nearby this perfect rose exuded peace and tranquility. Its a small painting 20x 40cm or there about on linen.

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Martha the eldest, in a green Kimono with roses.

2021

Oil on Canvas

90cm x 60cm

£500

I painted some stocks and peonies but I didn’t feel a need for a composition, I tried to find one and it didn’t appear, i added black and gold and started to play with colour, shapes and lines, edges are everywhere, I found a frame and before I knew it the paint had made itself vivid across the frame. A little gold moulding from the original frame gives tension and composure to the final piece.

Oil on Paper in Painted Frame

68cm x 53cm

£450 SOLD

In our times of abundance these everyday roses cost the same as cup of coffee. Who grew them who picked and packed them I will never know. As they sat on my kitchen table they grew in splendour and power and they asked to be painted.

Oil on Canvas Framed

74cm 74cm

£450 SOLD

The intoxicating delicacy of hydrangeas contrasted with the luminous pink of a rose and the robust golden shapes of autumnal leaves held me captive for weeks. Night flight speaks to the energy that moves and shapes realty, especially at night.

Oil on Linen

76cm x 65cm

£500

Playful and colourful, I painted these flowers wet onto wet and allowed the composition to extend out into the frame.

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Painted in the summer, outdoors in bright sunshine. A little homage to my dear friend and to her garden.

Oil on Canvas

30cm x 40cm

£150 SOLD

So delicate and fragile, floribunda roses that wilt in a day after they are picked.

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PAinted in 1993 before children, when I lived in Hackney. This painting has always been the key to my work. Brought me back to painting flowers and keeps the materiality of paint, foremost in my mind.

The shapes paint can make, like consciousness, is my abiding passion, to explore this with all the variety of colour and texture is my delight.

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White Roses, obscure and drowned out by the bold yellow vase that sits below them a square of strong impasto yellow oil paint. They are also obscured but billowing clouds of white and yellow paint. An idiosyncratic painting a poem on the possibilities of paint.

Oil on Canvas

76cm x 6cm

£300

The yellow back ground gives this quiet painting a strange existential feeling, like the serenity and the sadness of an old fashioned housewife. Who am I it seems to say and the yellow answers back in the language of yellow.

Oil on Linen

40cm x 25cm

£80