...sometimes out walking it is possible to feel absorbed enough to lose the sense of self and enter the landscape wholly and allow colour and form to envelop the consciousness - these moments are fleeting and back in the studio there is a similar feeling - a kind of intuition takes over whereby the act of painting is all response, trust and letting go so that you might step back and not recall having made the marks and yet, if only briefly, recognise oneself a little more...

CURRENT EXHIBITION

Artists from the South - A group exhibition at the Oxmarket Centre of Arts, Chichester, including myself, Barbara Macfarlane, Carolyn Booker, Frances Hatch and Gordon Rushmer. 30th June - 18th July. Preview Mon 29th June  6 - 8pm. St Andrews Court, off East Street, Chichester, West Sussex. PO19 1YH  Tel: 01243 779103  www.oxmarket.com

FORTHCOMING EXHIBITION

Arundel Gallery Trail 2009 - annual open house exhibition at home. Sat 22nd - Mon 31st August. Weekends 12.00 - 5.30pm. Week days 2.00 - 5.30pm. In the main house I will be showing new landscape and figure paintings - also we welcome two guest artists, sculptor and painter Lawrence Dicks in the basement and mixed media and found objects artist Peter Neuner in the garden room. Preview Friday 21st August 4.30 - 9.30pm. Please contact me if you would like an invitation.