What started out as a still life painting to refresh my ability to understand how objects sit in space became a series of studies about the objects themselves. The objects I gathered together for the paintings were either given to me or left to me when someone had died, bought from a jumble sale or charity shop or found while out walking.
I realised as I was painting that the objects became more than just ornaments, pieces of fabric and dried plant life. They had gained a monumental, dignified, enduring presence which described the people to whom the objects or association of the objects belonged.
Questioning the role of women in art as subjetive objects.
Animistic atavism - primitive techniques, emotions and expressions.
recent mixed media
Mixed media evocative of medieval stained glass and studies derived from natural
form.
