Painting the Estuary - 2016-01-14 12:43:09
Anyone looking at this site may wonder which direction will she go in next?When will she settle down to a recognizable style? The answer is probably never as i tend to bend with every wind that blows. Perhaps this is because I am married to a sailor. Left to fend for myself and my children while he was away at sea, or being picked up and deposited in another country to face another culture, another climate, and again with my little extensions, the children, to settle and acclimatize - an incredible start/stop life which encourages multiple new beginnings, while deserting previous trends.
Visiting the Indian school we support in Tamil Nadu, South India , as we usually do around January each year, and using it as a springboard to explore as yet unknown parts of this great country - I come back to the UK to re-think and re-assemble work - an afterglow to our rewarding Indian journey, and what a pleasure it is to share the excitement and colour of India with friends and public.
After this the ebb and flow of the tidal estuary beneath the windows of our home will take over as the spur to more work in this very special, rather watery, part of Pembrokeshire. The only divergence may come in the occasional foray into creating protest images, driven by the harsh reality of continuous war in the Middle East and elsewhere, with its horrific effects every day on people, and in particular - children. As I write, the Ukraine / Russian conflict is reaching a bloody expansion, with artists already responding to its horrors. So maybe I'll join them.