Born in 1938 into a chaotic world , my early life in India and Africa , and then abrupt removal to a conventional strict girls boarding school before the age of ten years old still affects me . Luckily from an early age I could draw well and found continual solace and pleasure in mark making . Continually reacting to the changing situations around me , and the ability to translate these experiences into paintings , sculpture and printmaking been the continuing  mainstay of my work .
This is not a way of life , it IS life as much as eating , breathing loving .
My new work , created since 2023 reflects the fact of the physical changes that have over come me . The innate desire to make work never left me but after a rather strange and wonderful experience ( a few hours of what is usually described as a near death experience ) I found I could no longer engage with the figurative work that had consumed me for the major part of my working . I look back on this work now with the eyes of and judgement of a stranger . I am quite happy and sometimes pleasantly surprised by some of my very early work , but because of a deep change in me that involvement has passed .
What I have been engaged with now , are large colour field paintings dominated by a horizon line and with a ‘ fore shore ‘ from which to view the space in front of you . These are the direct  result of the experience I had .

I have also become engaged in making some simple sculptures and very recently some film ideas .
of course I am always glad that this strong creative urge directs my life .