I trained in fine art at Hertfordshire University and was also privileged to have been a student of the English visionary artist Cecil Collins.  Cecil taught us the need to listen, to respect our instruments be they brushes, pencils, ink, paper etc. He introduced a series of studies that would enable us to work on these and on ourselves because we are also instruments who should open ourselves to the Creative Energy that it may flow through us and become manifest in the artistic image.  His mode of teaching involved movement of the body, often inspired by music of intense beauty, and an extensive study of the nature of the drawn line and the various qualities it can possess.  This approach particularly suited me for I feel the need to dance eminating within my body and my work is highly graphic and this quality is always visible in the variety of media I employ.  These include paint, print, drawing and various 3 dimensional forms. 

 

In my work, I am guided by The Dancing Line

 

I feel the Dance within my body, the Dance that emanates from the Cosmos, the Dance that encompasses Chaos. It is the spirit of Life, the expression of Death. Flowing through my being it dances me. It moves me into the material plane so that it may become manifest in the dancing line. In reality all is in motion, forms are processes in transformation and the only constant is change. But in the image time is seemingly held in suspension capturing for a while, though not for eternity, the climax of the Dance.