About the Artist My paintings are my window on the world. My first obsession was flowers. Painting them to express fragility, boldness, joy and love of life. Working on a cookery school in Italy inspired me to paint the fabulous ingredients we used and the cooked dishes we made. This led me to illustrate my own and others recipes, the results of which can been seen in the Illustration section. My Generalist Art and Design Degree meant that I worked in textiles, painting, print-making, 3D and Community Art. I fell in love with watercolour as a medium at Art College. Watercolour allows for wonderful planned accidents, real depth of colour, texture and intricate mark making. It is a controlled chaos which I can paint in minute details or make explode across the page. My Watercolour section shows a range of the work from botanical pieces to abstract. Acrylics are the complete opposite to Watercolours as the paint sits on the surface rather than soaks into it. This allows for bold mark making, expressive brush marks, vivid colours, texture and layering of paint to create depth. The Acrylic section shows some recent canvases, although at the moment my painting is going in a new and different direction which I have not been able to include. Painting my images of flowers, ingredients and cooked dishes onto ceramics has been really interesting and brings together my watercolour skills and my acrylic images. I love this work and enjoy seeing the transformation when they are fired, as they go from pastel and matt to bright and glossy. Changing how they look and feel completely. Designing patterns is a joy, encompassing my textile and painting skills. I regularly exhibit, a show of acrylics and watercolours is at the Gesalt Centre, London until May 2006. A show of Ceramics and Paintings is planned at the Trackside Gallery, June 2007. Recent highlights include a show at the Barbican in June 2006, the Trackside Gallery in 2005 and at the Garden Museum inside Lambeth Palace in 2004. MAD (makers, artists and designers) ART was an agency which I ran during the nineties with up to 40 Artists. I took part in Community Art projects and organised a shop at Covent Garden which was featured in Time Out. My work has been in Piece Hall-Halifax, Saltaire Gallery-Bradford, Libertys-London, Battersea Art Fair, bought by Divertimenti-Cookshop, sold at Bath Art Fair and been sold to Publishing companies such as Tigerprint. Come and see me at the Arts and Crafts section of Portobello Road market on Saturdays, its in Tavistock Square just before the A40 flyover!