I came to painting in my 50s, on an impulse. I had always doodled, but I would never have called myself an artist, and I did not do so until about 2000. It was a very confronting thing to do, and yet I could not stop creating, and I still haven't: paintings, works in clay, computer art, etchings and more.

In 2007 I became part of a "Visual Medicine" group (www.visualmedicine.org), where we created fluid acrylic paintings on paper and interpreted our work in a soulful, oracular way. An important part of this was making mandalas, which are not so much art as a stimulus for contemplation or oracular work.

During the UK lockdown in 2020, scratchboard became my new passion. It is the very opposite of fluid acrylic, requiring as much skill and concentration as an etching or aquatint, and I really love making these pieces.

I have exhibited in London, usually with others, at Lauderdale House, the Coningsby Gallery, the Phoenix in East Finchley, the Old Brent Gallery and several small restaurants and cafes.