How would you describe what you do to someone who hasn’t seen your art?Large Impressionist oils of my surrounds where I walk daily to see the sky, colours and changes of season, which I interpret with marks, strokes and lashes of paint, contrasting from dark to light shiny and then dry, using the light and shadow on leaves and water to show natural beauty.What is your studio like? Small, messy with good natural light, tons of paint, canvases, brushes, tools, couches for relaxing and contemplating unfinished work on many easels. I read to relax and paint between 10am and 3pm. While in the studio do you prefer to work with music or in silence?When relaxed, music and silence when concentrating. Being extremely sensitive to light and noise is definitely part of my ability to create and communicate through art.What materials do you use & why?Oil on canvas because of the archival qualities with the creaminess of paint allowing me to smear colours together when mixing. I like to show one colour becoming another as I push across the surface to immerse the viewer in emotion.What is your process?If I think or see something that I particularly like, I do a water colour of the scene to plan colours and composition, then use these to start a work which I continually photograph to use the camera as a third eye.
