Experiential Landscape

Welsh landscape and still life painter, living in Old Colwyn with my husband. I've painted professionally for around 20 years. 

Based on the coast in Old Colwyn all my life, there's no wonder my interest has been in the weather, sea and lands. 

My practice begins outside with my sketchbooks, following the lines of the land using boundaries and animal tracks I find shapes and paths into the painting. Then using charcoals and paints I explore the contrasts. The weather adds to the energy and direction a piece will go. 

My coastal paintings contain far more movement from being painted en plein air.

For me, everything is in motion, and so that's how I paint.

My constant question is, how do I paint how it feels to be between the land and sea, between the trees and skies. Everything I create is from my experience of being in the place.