About my work

Many thanks to the many who visited my exhibition in Hampstead and especially to the buyers who made it a success. My cards and prints will continue to be available from the shop in Burgh House. My next exhibition - Souvenirs of London - will be in the gallery at St Martin in the Fields from Monday 28 September to Friday 9 October 2009. Many more works around the Covent Garden, Mayfair, Marylebone and Westminster areas of London will be included and there will be a good selection of reasonably priced prints. Please look again at the website around the beginning of September, when there will be more information. 

My work falls into four main categories, though I am constantly exploring new avenues to keep my paintings fresh and alive! London scenes predominate and if I were to characterize the main features of these, I would say they express a fascination in the spaces formed by light and shade and colour and how those spaces interact with the people. A lot of my work is done around North and Central London. All the works are completed outside on location, creating a unique record of that particular place and time. The work has to be completed within a couple of hours, otherwise the light changes too much. This contributes to the liveliness of my style.

I trained at the City Lit, Prince’s Drawing School, Mary Ward Centre, and at the Yale Summer School of Art. I am also a member of the Federation of British Artists. My work has been exhibited at the Mall Galleries, the Footstools Gallery at St Johns Smith Square, Morley College, Westminster Open Arts 2008, Drawntogether 2008 (Princes Drawing School) and at the Yale Summer School in Norfolk, Connecticut USA. I have also completed several private commissions and my work is owned and enjoyed in Australia, the USA and Japan as well as in the UK. I am Artist in Residence at Fenton House, the National Trust property in Hampstead and I am secretary to the Drawing London group .

Life studies and other studio work form the next major part of my work. There is no way to fool the eye with a drawing of a life model – it has to look and feel right. Models move because they are alive and their muscles flex and they breathe, surprisingly! The liveliness of the model, as well as the line, has to find its way onto the paper. I love the challenge! 

Portraiture is a developing area for me and I will be doing more of these through the coming months. I have also written and illustrated a couple of children’s books for our 4 year old grandson and have written and illustrated a couple of travelogues. I have been asked to develop the illustrations for a new children's book to be published at the end of the year.