I became inter­ested in art around the age of fif­teen mainly through the influ­ence of fam­ily inter­ests and dis­cus­sions con­cern­ing cul­tural issues. I made the deci­sion to be an artist when I was eigh­teen dur­ing my A lev­els and sub­se­quently started my art train­ing at Bath acad­emy of Fine Art the fol­low­ing year.

At the age of twenty one I was opened in Subud after read­ing Bennett’s book “Con­cern­ing Subud”.  I was, by this time, at the Slade School of Fine Art, Lon­don and did Lati­han at the Muswell Hill Group. My paint­ings started to change after a few months in Subud and by the end of one year they had dra­mat­i­cally evolved from large scale geo­met­ric images to very small fig­u­ra­tive work.  From then onwards my work has devel­oped in many dif­fer­ent ways. My art has been and is inspired by the Lati­han; paint­ing that reflects inner feel­ings, receiv­ings, purifi­ca­tion, lower and higher forces and the dif­fer­ing realms of the spir­i­tual and worldly aspects of life.

I work in the medi­ums of oil on can­vas, water­colour and acrylic on paper, wood­cut prints and also small scale sculpture.

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