This video celebrates 6 Portuguese monuments inspired by mixed media canvases of them and their reinterpretation using transparent layering of uv inkjet printing on perspex. Looking through, rotating and interacting with each artwork is the intended result.
The Open Studio weekend was a successful event for myself and my art students. This was held simultaneously with my art colleague Franka Struys. In the future we hope to include more artists. It is dynamic to share ideas and discuss different approaches to art. It is equally good to find art students who might…
I selected a few mixed media artworks on canvas from my ongoing ‘Trespassing’ and ‘Music & Monuments’ projects. Some of the works depict buildings in ruins in an area of great natural beauty. Some have been ‘upgraded’ as tourist venues. Others are waiting to be developed and the hope is that their intrinsic historic qualities…
I have been invited to exhibit in two juried venues in the UK. In 2012 I was invited to exhibit at the Bankside Gallery by the Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers. From 2014-2017 the Society of Women Artists has invited me to exhibit in their annual summer shows. In 2014 I received the Frank Herring & Sons…
An ongoing project centred on ruins and buildings in decay in Portugal struck a chord with a colleague and myself culminating in an exhibition in July 2016 entitled ‘Trespassing’. We visited (‘trespassed’) buildings of historic interest which have been ‘let go’. Local protestors are keen to preserve many of these buildings and it has become…
The CRLI (Centro Recuperação de Lobo Ibérico) launched ‘Last Push to Save the Iberian Wolf Recovery Centre’ (https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/last-push-to-save-the-iberian-wolf-recovery-centre#/story) in 2015 to save their 42 acre site in Mafra Portugal where approximately 15 wolves live. It is the only wolf sanctuary in Portugal and Portugal has approximately 300 endangered wolves. I donated 9 artworks that have…
A new subject for me where famous Portuguese buildings and a variety of musical genres come together digitally with the help of more conventional art techniques including etching, collage and paint. My background in architecture and interest in music helped me to develop these unexpected and fanciful mixed media images on canvas. I have used…
As friends and artists we agreed that working together is a very positive and creative experience. It can lead to further collaboration, inspire new ideas and be a stimulating way to move forward in art as well as in other areas of life. We wanted to put this into practice in our joint show so…