The first of the new 'small' series began with Pearl. Titled after the softest and palest pearl colours which provide calm in amongst the louder corals ... it reminds me of Alice from Hicks Gallery and her pearly blonde hair. 

This painting is now sold.

Something about the colours and shapes makes me think Jazz - it shouldn't work but it does. Someone once said that to me about my dress sense and I've never forgotten it. 

This painting makes me think of old leather suitcases with stripy linings and silk scarves with prints of European landmarks on - the vintage sort a woman might wear to keep the hair from her eyes as she zoomed along in her open top sports car on a weekend escape to Cannes.  Feminism dreams.  

This one is inspired by beautiful window boxes packed to the brim with ranunculus and pelargoniums. My aunt's garden in Carrara is like this; wonderful flowers growing in interesting ceramics and seen with strong like and the equivalent dark areas of shadow in between. 

I love to listen to female singer songwriters when I paint and Suzanne Vega is one of my favourites. Her song Calypso was playing when this one came to life and it seems to fit perfectly. It's an achingly beautiful love story   - about the sea and a man and loss -  that I love as much now as when I was 16.
This painting is now sold.

This is the optimism of the approaching spring but from a slightly lower physical viewpoint.

It was painted at a time when I could see very positive changes occurring in my life.  Recent events have curtailed plans somewhat but we have had the most glorious spring that I can recall.