In my work I face a constant battle between the desire to keep things smooth, clean, simple and precise and the need to be expressive, bold colourful and textured. I find it quite hard to strike a balance between the two which satisfies me. When my work has been looser I longed for the intricate [...]

I am about to go off on a rather self indulgent rant and I am not sure how much sense it will make to anyone but here I go… I’ve always used my own body for most of the nudes I paint, this started for purely practical reasons…..but I never dared to paint a self [...]

Painting a self portrait is a pretty daunting thing to do – and I have been avoiding it for years. It has such a long tradition and almost all significant women painters have left an example, so it’s quite exciting to follow in their footsteps. I am used to painting large scale portraits of women, [...]