I live on the east coast of Scotland and like the sea around me and the vast open skies above I feel the creative power move in waves and rhythmic tides of expansion and activity. I work from my studio at home and this past year has seen a move from making small abstract paintings into a space where I am creating large scale expansive paintings that transmit a radiant light to those who stand in front of them, offering them a place to just be and to be held in their human body.
Each painting is made by pouring diluted paint onto the canvas and then I slowly tilt the canvas from various points to allow it to spread and gather in pools or be guided off the edge onto the floor. There are no brushes used, no marks are made by my hand, it is just pouring and moving, observing, waiting, then pouring and moving.
As I move between the paintings on the floor I can feel the light bounce back. I know my purpose, to be here, now, in this time, to paint, to connect with the highest and oldest aspect of myself, to give space for others to feel, to love deeply and to expand outward into the universe.
This work is my offering to the world to help others heal too. I am very touched by humanity, the human effort and lives of everyone, their hopes and dreams. It’s very moving to me.
“There is only one question:
how to love this world.”
― Mary Oliver