My process is intuitive by nature but I approach a canvas with a direct idea of the composition, palette and artistic fundamentals. This comes from a place of emotion where a feeling is expressed in terms of harmony and discord.

As I apply the colours that best express those feelings, the form of the work begins to emerge. Figures come to life, places are created, and a painting takes shape. My work has evolved through a long process – from a traditional training in graphic design, eventually emerging as the work we see today.

My technical style is Abstract Expressionism. In each painting is a story and the eyes and gaze of the women tell a story of strength, vulnerability and knowing. Beyond the ordinary and the known into a world less concrete where hopes come and go.

As women grow, their lives become less certain and defined by the possible and my paintings aim to depict the tussle between barriers and the flight of the soul. My life and emotions are now coming into play in what I am trying to put into pictures.

My graphic style – the vector lines – the emphasis on graphic construction, are softening into paintings of beauty, colour and artistic exactness.

My favourite painting is always the most recent one I’ve completed. It is the closest to my heart at that moment. They may not all be masterpieces, but the love is there all the same in that moment in time.

I paint full-time in my studios in West Sussex and Abruzzo, Italy.

I am an elected Member of the Society of Women Artists and the Association of Sussex Artists and I exhibit in Italy, USA, London and the south of England.