During my life as an artist there has been  recurring themes in my paintings, they are a love for  patterns and an equal love for colour.  I become so absorbed by natures combination of colour and patterns.  Mother nature’s use of complimentary colours, repetition of petals and inside the petals, or in the leaves is a constant source of inspiration. My obsessive and insatiable need to paint pattern and colour becomes satisfied when I create work using these elements. 

 Since 1992 my focus has been trying to find a balance with the two and then pushing that balance. Currently, I do this by intensely exploring patterns. I create my own design, carve it out of rubber linoleum then pull prints from that block by hand. I brush acrylic paint on the rubber linoleum block because I enjoy the intimate and obvious irregularities of the brush stroke and the inconsistency of the paint, each stroke creating a genuine texture. After choosing a palette, I take many prints of different designs I created from Lino printing and I layer them on top of each other, using acrylic mediums and paint, working with transparency and opaqueness. I have also developed a technique using my digital elements. I create these for my textile designs, keeping the integrity and shape of my naturally drawn line.This allows me great flexibility in image customization. I incorporate these elements into my mixedmedia collages, sources for my pattern making dirive from creating them myself or finding interesting preexitising ones with which I resonate.