Recalling my memories fuels my need to make pictures - it's to do with sharing past experiences with the viewer, my childhood memories of sitting at the table in my Nan's kitchen, the abandoned disorder she created in the wake of her culinary tasks. The pots, bowls, spoons and sieves - the tools were all cleared away when the job was done, to be replaced with a freshly laundered table cloth and clean bowls and plates. Today, the daily ritual of making a cup of tea and cooking lunch in my own kitchen becomes a ritual similar to that of my nan's.

Time spent at the coast reinforces this experience for me. The interior in my beachut and the things that find their own way there have a story to tell. The mix of inherited objects from past owners and my own things seem to tell their own story.The memories of colour, pattern and the chosen objects start to form, moving from sketchbook to canvas. The surface of the painting is then built up with layers of paint. The subleties of the process of layering the paint,scraping back and layering again create the richness and depth that the memory itself has for me.

Selected Exhibitions

Royal Academy, Summer Exhibition 2007 & 2008
Dulwich Picture Gallery Summer Exhibition 2006, 2nd Place Best Painting
Smelik Stokking, The Hague
Glasgow Art Fair, Scotland
Cafe 2005, Edinburgh, Scotland
Ahoy, Rotterdam, Netherlands
Concourse Gallery, Barbican3050
London Society of Women Artists, Westminster Central Halls, London
St Owens Manor, Jersey Art Interiors
Stark Gallery, London & Canterbury
Art on Paper, Royal College London
Art Ireland, Dublin
Affordable Art Fair, Battersea, London
Wyards Gallery, Faversham
New City Gallery, London Also published by LoveYourArt.com