The process of making my recent abstract paintings is an instinctive one of putting marks down because something inarticulate and feral – yet uncompromisingly scrupulous – demands it, while a multitude of imposter subpersonalities attempt to stage a coup. Making paintings and collages provides moments where possibilities of reconciling opposites open up – the flat, non-representational surface of a small canvas becomes spacious, and ruthlessness is revealed as unexpectedly tender.

Inner exploration, and attunement to the kinaesthetic experience of feeling, have always been drivers in my creative practice, along with a simple desire to feed my eyes with colour. In 2010 I stopped making figurative and representational work and, bypassing the symbolic and narrative, began making abstract paintings.

I am also an accredited Jungian Life Coach and creativity coach.