Portraits of a Brother & Sister

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Isabelle was 8 years old and her eyes were lit up in excitement - it was Christmas and her brother, Henry, a robust four month old was staring at his mother’s face and lips, trying to make word-soun...

Splash – Kingfisher

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Many of us are beguiled by kingfishers - as is Michael, my husband. I painted this as a gift for his birthday.  It was decades ago, and I don't remember in  which magazine I saw this beautiful  pho...

THE PRESENCE

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This a conceptual image  and my way of ‘seeing’ things. The Presence is one of a series of paintings I am preparing, Here I have tried to express and honour the presence of God everywhere – eve...

FIRST GLIMPSE

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Michael standing before a vista of the first glimpses along the Beas river to the distant peaks of the mountain valley in the Himalayas. It was a swelteringly hot summer’s day - and the  snow melt ...

GANNETS WHEELING

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One of my early attempts of painting in acrylics, I simply loved this picture of the wheeling gannets and their elegant shapes, the deep blues of the swirling waves set off by the subtle tones of the ...

LUCY

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Lucy was a beautiful, a good-natured golden retriever who adored the countryside – and food; as they do. Northamptonshire’s rivers, stagnant pools, fields and woodlands, hares, deer, and flocks of...

RUFUS

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Rufus was a lively personality with the freedom of a farm, a farmhouse and surrounding fields and streams, where he had grown up from a puppy. Rufus remained the apple of his owners’ eyes until the ...

SOLITUDE

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Love at first sight once again! The curving beauty of  sculpted sand dunes embracing unyielding rocks in an untamed silent windy wilderness; a ‘Sahra’, desert (Arabic), that I would only ever see...