My exhibition at Field Trip Gallery is only a month away. The show opens on October 8. The opening reception is October 9 ( 5 til 8 pm)

1 Latrobe Terrace, Paddington.

All are welcome

What started as a solo show has morphed into a joint show with Anna Guthrie. It has grown from one room to the whole gallery.

The exhibition is called Field Notes and reflects a practice Anna and I share. We both get out into our neighbourhoods and explore our environments visually with curiosity and purpose.

My concept for this exhibition was to explore the liminal space created when moving house. That moment when you are no longer fully part of the familiar environment you have known for years, but you have not yet fully discovered the new one either.

For fourteen years I lived in Cedar Creek, drawing and painting the landscape and my garden over and over again. It was an endlessly rich visual resource, and I never tired of it.

Moving my home and studio made me nervous. I wondered how it would affect my work and where my inspiration would come from.

But once the boxes were unpacked, something unexpected happened.

My daily dog walks became a way of observing, discovering and exploring a completely new visual landscape. Each walk offered small moments of beauty - what I like to think of as daily glimmers.

My new home didn’t come with a garden. Despite starting to plant almost immediately, it will take time before it has the abundant flora I loved so much at my old place. In a way, that absence has been a gift. It has encouraged me to look outward and observe my surroundings with renewed curiosity.

This new body of work is divided into smaller collections. Each finished painting is 30 × 30 cm, acrylic on ply.

I will be exhibiting a collection of 44 of these ‘foot square’ pieces plus some large paintings.

The collection is made up of 10 different plants I have been intrigued by in Brighton 4017.

For each plant, I made two paintings from life and a series of drawings.

The drawings informed a triptych of a more abstracted exploration of the plant.

I am really interested in how artists see, how we experience the world visually. I am aware that we cannot view something in its entirety. We see snippets and knit them together. Artists observe so much more. We are looking for value, texture, pattern, line, variety, shape, colour, form. I grapple with expressing this experience in my ‘abstracted’ pieces.

The Teeny Tiny pieces are made alongside the ‘foot square series’. I make a 20 × 20 cm painting.

Once finished, that painting is cut into 10 × 10 cm squares.

And that is how the Teeny Tiny Paintings are born.

They are small fragments of a larger exploration - little pieces of the studio process that carry the same colour, energy and curiosity as the larger works.

The giveaway is a little gift of appreciation

If you are on the list, you go into the draw.

If you win, you can choose from one of that month’s 4 Teeny Tiny paintings.

There is no catch, and I mail them to anywhere else in the world.

The teeny tiny collection will be for sale at the exhibition, and as part of the show I will be giving away 3 in 3 separate draws.