Painting and drawing play a central role. She works with charcoal and oil paint. The process of drawing is crucial to her practice. She doesn’t create a literal translation of what she sees. From an early age she interpreted her surroundings into flat surfaces and patterns. Through her practice she became interested in the universality of  pattern and  line.  Charcoal enables her to translate this by using the line as a means of construction in a process of addition and subtraction, this process  allows her to build up the surface pattern which then creates a structure from which to hang the veils of colour, very thin washes of oil paint allowing you to see into the depths of the canvas enabling you to experience the transitional process that has taken place.This process of layering allows her to interpret the ephemerality of time and change. There is a sense of flux and transition but this is in no way random or chaotic.

 

Her work imbues a lightness of touch and a gentle sensitivity to the transitional quality of her surroundings. The delicacy of colour created from a limited palette allows her to translate the fleeting moments that she encounters.

However in a similar process she captures the overwhelming power that Nature also brings. Shocking colour is a means of embracing the solid nature of obdurate shapes that she records. This flaming light however  is as transient as her work with gentle transparent washes of the cooler palette. Her paintings retain a sense of the natural elements she sees however flimsy or solid the structure re-enforcing that sense of flux and transition we observe in the natural world.