In 2007 I made two visits to Lapland in the Arctic Circle which inspired me to respond to the experience in paint and clay. These have been shown at the One Church Street Gallery, Great Missenden, U.K. 

The first frosts arrive in September and the northern "taiga" (or forests) turns into a glowing tapestry of colour - the season of Ruska. The glowing lights of amber, yellow, red and dark green are amplified by the colours underfoot... patches of purple and pink bilberries coating slate grey quartzite rocks, or the powdery yellow-greys of the lichen. This luminosity is both magical and seductively disorientating. 

Exhibition: paintings and ceramics, mixed media studies using dry materials, smoke fired ceramic vessels on sticks.