I have worked in industry, for public bodies and free lance; both initiating works and to commission. As a young artist I was an illustrator and graphic artist in the music industry. Subsequently I was funded as ‘artist in residence’ by the arts council and public bodies to lead many projects creating: large scale murals, multi-media theatre and educational projects for: hospitals, schools, museums and community groups.
Exhibitions include ‘Women Live’ at Contact Theatre, ‘Interior Visions’ at Rochdale Art gallery and ‘The I of the Beholder’ at Bradford University Gallery. My work ranges from fantasy themes, abstracted organic forms, landscape and the figure, particularly the nude.
Over the past 20 years I have worked as a therapist and my art work has taken less of a role. I am now re- launching my artistic career with a new series of figurative paintings and photographs.
My current work reflects two aspects of the same theme: expression to do with connection with the psyche and spiritual/emotional connection. It is a logical extension of earlier full length, nude self portrait paintings that explored aspects of the female psyche and led to ‘The I of the beholder’ exhibition and ‘Inside out’ art therapy workshops.
I aim to picture ‘A different face of Masculinity’, by re-configuring the portrayal of the male in art and translate it into the aesthetics of a pictorial image, to create beauty in composition, colour and mark using water colour, oil paint and photography. I am focusing on the male nude and the passionate Tango dance.
I have always been inspired by fluid, organic forms, be they abstracted or figurative. The same patterns occur in nature in both plants and animals. I believe they are deeply embedded in our psyche from our earliest somatic memories. I am trained in dance, qigong and yoga, have a Master in Women’s Studies and work as a body/mind therapist. For me the body is a beauteous evolution of nature that we all have a direct and profound relationship to. The human body, nature’s zenith, is the main convergent point for my creativity in later years.
