My paintings often begin with a colour palette, derived from nature usually..from my wanderings. Then sound.. , a song, an album..or nature again. This all gets transcribed to the canvas using acrylic paint, oil crayon and graphite markings, sometimes collage..just mixed media really. I used the rain in one because it started pouring as I was painting. I love nature. I have moved around a bit these past few years in an old converted school bus..and my work reflects this, from dry forest with towering gum trees to tropical rainforest. Nature has been my healer..I have have survived two brain surgeries, brain radiation and chemotherapy. I am a mother, I thrive.