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.  Patterns were all around me as a young child. Linoleum flooring, wallpaper and textiles, on the window or on me.  I become so absorbed by natures combination of colour and patterns. Mother nature’s use of complimentary colours, repetition of shapes, the corolla  and the calyx, or with 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.  Most recently I discovered gel plate printing. With the gel plate I create mono prints of patterns, no two prints are alike. After choosing a palette, I take many prints of different gel plate designs along with  Lino print and I layer them , using acrylic mediums and paint, working with transparency and opaqueness. I have also developed a technique incorporating  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.