Having attended Chelsea School of Art, specialising in Painting, taught by Frank Auerbach and Leon Kossoff in the early 60’s, I later became interested in the technique of batik.

Batik, the craft of painting and drawing hot wax onto fabric to mask areas or lines so that when the piece is immersed or painted with dye, the waxed areas resist the dye so only the unwaxed areas absorb the colour. The process can be repeated many times to build a design or painting with overlapping colours, starting with the lightest and finishing with the darkest. The final stage is to remove the wax revealing a rich tracery caused by tiny cracks in the wax. (There are ways and means of varying this process to achieve different effects).

Painting and drawing in pastel, from observation, ”plein air”, is my starting point, observing the perspective patterns of cultivated fields and the way that sunlight affects grasses, barley and wheat crops. I am particularly interested in cloud formations, patterns across stubble fields and abstract shapes in landscapes. I love seascapes with the effect of the dazzling flow of the sea over wet shiny beaches.

I exhibit regularly with Artworks, Suffolk Craft Society and Walsham Arts and Crafts Group