Earlier this year, feeling a longing to return to the freedom of watercolour, a friend introduced me to some fabulous Russian paints and I have not looked back! I haven’t the time to! I just can’t stop painting, painting, painting! An initial “stab” at a favourite local scene, “Pakefield Beach” was so successful and well-received, that I was immediately lifted from depression and began a series of flower paintings with nothing but a brush full of watercolour in hand. Partly influenced by Van Gogh’s flower studies against complementary backgrounds, partly also by my love of Art Nouveau and its growth forms, partly again by the decorative paintings of Klimt and Hundertwasser and my dream about including framing in the picture itself, my work has now “taken off” and my very own painting style, which I always knew was held within me, has blossomed forth! I call these works my “icons”. How appropriate, then that I should be using Russian Watercolours!

Watercolours (sometimes with gold and silver gouache)

These paintings sell as fast as I can paint them, so I have begun commissioning a “limited edition” series of Giclee prints from a firm called, “Salt of the Earth”.
They will also make prints of my large oil paintings, so these become more accessible price-wise. “Salt of the Earth” liked my new work so much, they are featuring me on their website in the next quarter of the year. (from October 2010)
Visit their website at www.salt-of-the-earth.biz