Following the success of my “Just Women” exhibition, I spent the following years experimenting and refining a broad range of different painting techniques and materials, and developing my own process, compatible with the drying qualities of acrylic paint.

I always started with a background of “chaos” without a destination in mind or encumbered by wondering about the results. Initially I see myself as the technician letting the paint tell me what it needs. I work by pouring paint onto the canvas which is laid on a flat surface. By moving around, working intuitively with the colours and shapes of this chaotic background, I add sweeping markings to create movement. Slowly images begin to emerge, very much a ” stream of consciousness” process.

As I am drawn into the images, I isolate them with colour, filling in negative spaces until the canvas seems balanced and exuberant with bold colours, bright shapes and intricate design & binary illusion. Mastering these techniques has resulted in a freeing up of my style and assisted in a transition to an abstract style.

Thus the collection of works for the “Audacity of Diversity” was created as four different styles emerged spontaneously. Amongst this collection, I continued to follow a stylistic approach to my depiction of human forms, often with brightly coloured birds and animals with mythological overtones. Expressions on these creatures, often poking fun at conventionality.

‘Down the Rabbit Hole’