Over the past years my work has
undergone a series of profound changes as I have made the transition from
figurative images painted on to folding screens to the current narrative and
semi-abstract works. To make this transition I have been experimenting with the
more spontaneous print techniques combined with chine-colle; collage; drawing
and mixed media. I am now making a return to painting.
I
believe that the experience of working as an art therapist in the past combined
with my own vivid dream world form the basis for much of my work. Fragments of
memories form a framework on which to weave visual stories that touch the
absurd, reaching out to the darker side and exploring the thought shadows that
link deep within the mind to emerge in dreams. Sometimes my work is inspired by
poetry and a love of words; jumbled upside-down ideas woven together to feed the
imagination.
Recently
I have been working on collagraph prints and mixed media pieces which take an
affectionate look at the language of human interaction, glimpsed encounters and
vulnerability. I hold my own interpretations of these works as the titles
suggest; but their intention is to feed the imagination and create for the
viewer a fantasy place of their own.