• Oil painting
• Aquarelles
• Collage with photography
• Ceramics
• Sculpture
• I create small-scale shrines and churches (with built in lights and furniture)
• I make tables out of doors and old windows (usually very Eastern looking)
• I rehabilitate old lamps, from flea markets (sometimes they're quite funky)
• I am an avid gardener and live happily and quietly in Provence, France.

The selected collage/photo/aquarelle pictures you will find on this site are all numbered; some are framed and all are for sale.

A brief biography

I was born and grew up in Sri Lanka - then headed for boarding school in England (at age eight....) but kept returning as much as I possibly could. I mention this so that you can understand my love for colour and everything Eastern. My heart is still in Sri Lanka and always will be.

I am very lucky to be able to accompany my husband Martin on some of his frequent travels, so I have been able to see a lot of our world. China, in particular, fascinates me. Everywhere you go, even in the big cities, there are still small areas which have remained the same for many hundreds of years. The people are friendly, if a bit timid, but once you master the 'smile' everyone is charming. The countryside abounds with wonderful old buildings, built of wood and plaster, which you can't imagine have managed to stay up for so long. The 'minority' peoples in these old settlements wear the most wonderful clothes and some of the strangest hairstyles you'll see anywhere. As you can see, I've incorporated a lot of this in my work.

My pictures try to impart the importance of all art, including the use of flora and fauna, and some of the meaning of it all in Chinese or Indian culture - I suppose from a Western point of view. I am in such joy when a picture turns out the way I wanted, I feel like I've said something to other people about what it's like to see whole cultures just so integrated in everything around them. Anyone can see in my pictures the love of fabric, that I think comes from an innate love of the sari, the folds, the pleats, the colors, always wrapped with infinite care. I have tried to express this in my art, and only you can tell me if it has worked. 

Thank you for taking the time to visit my website.