About me
Nature feeds my soul and sparks my imagination.
You’ll find me out and about in every season - armed with my camera, curiosity and a sense of adventure: walking, watching, gazing. Noticing shapes, lines, patterns, adjacent colours, shades, hues; scents, textures, movement and sound.
I listen to trees chatter and to running water. I talk to the birds, watch passing clouds, stargaze and smile at the moon.
And now you can hear me talking to Diane Wyzga on 'Stories From Women Who Walk'.
Expressing feelings and emotions.
Choosing colours and gestures to capture what I have seen or experienced, I create original abstracts for you to collect as paintings or prints.
Any captured moment, image or recollection may be present, as I work in the studio. One never knows what will happen inside that precious space.
The best that can happen is that a piece resonates with you; inspires you to look again, and maybe for you to see differently. Always with appreciation, affection and amazement for the beauty of what is all around us - in nature, and in every one of us.
I'm currently working on 'Scattered Thoughts' - the 'working title' of an artist book which weaves threads through the forest, the year and the seasons, using letters from the Tree Alphabet - celebrating the forest as the original place of spirit, worship and meaning.
This is turning out a little differently to what I expected - which is what I expected!
I have written a poem for each letter/word, and am about to start working on the paintings.
My studio is situated in South West France, south of Bergerac, in one of the bastides.
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Always observing, thinking and imagining, I have work in private collections in the UK, Belgium, Denmark, France,Germany and the U.S.
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Fafnir
I look up to see the sky and the clouds – to imagine what might happen if the sky crashed down upon us or exploded into zillions of small pieces – odd shapes, slithers, chinks, chunks and slices of sky: would they reflect light or soak up the darkness? Fafnir is one of four stars…
£420.00
Ginan
I look up to see the sky and the clouds – to imagine what might happen if the sky crashed down upon us or exploded into zillions of small pieces – odd shapes, slithers, chinks, chunks and slices of sky: would they reflect light or soak up the darkness? Ginan is one of four stars…
£420.00
Requiem aeternam
An interpretation of Benjamin Britten’s War Requiem into a series of 8 prints. Bells toll, music and voices rise in intensity, you can hear death’s heavy footsteps coming ever closer. The first print in the series of 8, in an edition of 10. Created with three screen prints and a linocut.
£120.00
Sanctus
An interpretation of Benjamin Britten’s War Requiem into a series of 8 prints. Amidst dissonant bells the Soprano sings, flanked by a towering mass of humanity, as they repeat “Blessed is he who cometh in the name of the Lord”. Sanctus is the sixth of the 8 prints, in an edition of 10. Created with…
£120.00
Dies irae ll
An interpretation of Benjamin Britten’s War Requiem into a series of 8 prints. The height of the battle, flashes of light from explosions capture figures, holding them still for an instant. The third print in the series of 8, in an edition of 10. Created with three screen prints and a linocut.
£120.00
Libera Me
An interpretation of Benjamin Britten’s War Requiem into a series of 8 prints. The end of the journey, through the tunnel and into “the perpetual light” and peace. There is a meeting, and reconciliation. The last in the series of 8 prints, in an edition of 10. Created with six screen prints and a linocut.
£120.00
Agnus Dei
An interpretation of Benjamin Britten’s War Requiem into a series of 8 prints. To capture the simplicity and melancholy of this section I have used an image from Prowse Point Cemetery. The seventh print in the series of 8 prints, in an edition of 10. Created with three screen prints.
£120.00
Offertorium
An interpretation of Benjamin Britten’s War Requiem into a series of 8 prints. The angels sing their request: “deliver the souls of the departed from the pains of hell, and the bottomless pit”. The fifth print in the series of 8, in an edition of 10. Created with three screen prints and a linocut.
£120.00
Dies irae I
An interpretation of Benjamin Britten’s War Requiem into a series of 8 prints. Shells fall and bombs explode, obliterating men from the earth. This print includes words from the birth certificate of my Great-great Uncle, Harry Alfred George Hayter, who died in 1918, aged 19. The second print in the series of 8, in an…
£120.00
