About

After studying graphic design and illustration, I worked for a printers in Clerkenwell before specialising in marketing and design for the fine jewellery industry.  So it was a small step to setting up my own business in 1995.

In 2014, I met Talia LeHavi and had the opportunity to explore my youthful fascination with Chinese and Japanese art,  inspired by a birthday card from an aunt.  The importance of space, the energy of each brush marks and the simplicity of the layout are very different to the values and culture of Western art. I took lessons from Talia, (a former member of Skylark Gallery during her years in London), in Japanese calligraphy and ink painting and have remained in touch with her as she builds her own art school in Majorca.

During the Covid lock down, I recognised that the world would be a very different place and took the decision to close the business and concentrate on my ink painting practice.  I moved out of my central London studio to Thames-side Studios and began to exhibit locally, so it seemed like the right time to look for a gallery.  A framer at the studios mentioned Skylark Gallery and in 2023 I became an artist member, exhibiting in Gabriel’s Wharf on South Bank.

I paint on Japanese or Chinese papers, much of it hand-made, using traditional black Sumi and coloured mineral inks, applied with a brush.  The final touch to each finished painting is my signature in Japanese script and two chop marks – one being a monogram of my initials and the other a blessing or symbolic description of the brush strokes or content.  Each painting is float mounted and some are framed in natural ash wood