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As an older artist I enjoy celebrating the defiance of subjects moving through life without costume or caricature. My paintings address shifting identities as perspectives on location, occupation, health, relationships all change.

For the last four years I have been fully occupied in the art education for which I have always yearned. I’m lucky enough to have joined Red Herring immediately upon graduating from the University of Brighton, and as I embarked on East Sussex Turps Banana mentor program.  

Like many of the women in my family whose passions were sidelined, as a post-war child, I grew up with the expectation that my future was invested in a professional life, that i needed to earn a good living independently. Creative practices such as drawing and making things were sidelined to evenings, weekends and holidays, but so important that I couldn’t help doing them alongside my work as a mathematics educator, researcher and academic practitioner. Now I am grateful to be building experimentally on lifetime experience. I love that in using my hands something might happen in my head or my heart. Unlocking feelings is for me the best part and I like to feel a surge of joy when marks appear, though it doesn’t always happen.

Emeritus Professor of Education, Victoria University, Melbourne