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There is a ritual to beginning a painting. It often starts long before I enter the studio, with thoughts about colour that stay with me as I go about the rest of my day. When I begin, I prepare the canvas, mix the colours and make that first mark. It is always an exciting moment. Painting demands concentration and solitude, allowing me to become fully absorbed in the work as it gradually unfolds.

 

As a contemporary abstract painter, I begin each painting using only the three primary colours and white. From this deliberately limited palette, I explore the shifting perception of colour and the ambiguity of space. Through layering and repeated mark-making, colours appear to change in relation to one another, creating paintings that invite multiple ways of seeing rather than fixed interpretations.

 

My path to becoming an artist was not a direct one. Although I grew up surrounded by an appreciation of art and making, it was later in life, after raising my own children, that I recognised painting as something I needed to pursue. Returning to education eventually led to a Fine Art degree, and with it an entirely new way of looking at the world. Learning to draw transformed how I saw everything around me: line, shape, contrast, tone and colour became part of everyday experience, and painting has remained at the centre of my life ever since.

 

When a painting is going well, I lose all sense of time and of myself. The process becomes one of complete immersion, guided by intuition as much as intention. Yet the work is never complete until it is encountered by another person. The viewer brings their own experience, perceptions and associations, and in that moment the painting begins a new conversation beyond my own intentions. I hope the work offers space for reflection rather than answers, inviting viewers to experience colour, perception and the act of seeing in their own way.