As a painter I don't often have the opportunity to work on site specific, collaborative work, although I have always been interested in exploring other forms of art (and I have always felt daunted by the whole arts council funded approach.)

A number of women artists meet upstairs at a café on Tuesday mornings (a vital link when you work on your own) and we have diverse thematic exhibitions from time to time. We started this year with an exhibition called 'Memories' at the attic gallery in the Ancient House in Ipswich. I booked the space to correspond with ip-art (an arts festival in Ipswich) and wrote the proposal so it could be included in the brochure. From time to time we worked in the space and the resulting exhibition was lovely.

An evocative atmospheric exhibition inspired by light, shadow and place, which invites the visitor on a visual journey into secret worlds, down forgotten paths.

For this exhibition I began thinking about the Ancient House and all the women who may have passed through. I looked at medieval art and at Botticelli in particular.

When we began working there I was inspired by the fabulous drawings on the walls and doors that you can see in one of the little rooms. I also became interested in the works on linen that they discovered there, the reproductions of which strike you as you walk up the stairs. Combining those strange images and those of Botticelli I decided to work on large drawings with red chalks and develop them on muslin.

In my work I try to capture the intensity and flow of the fleeting moment and the play of the light and here, as light streams through the window the drawing on the fabric becomes transparent. It gently moves with the flow of movement almost disappearing, leaving the faint tracings on the paper on the floor seemingly more solid and real.

I am also a member of Creative Freelance, an association of creative freelance professionals based in and around Ipswich. We worked on a carefully nurtured collaborative book project by 17 Creative-Freelance members (plus an honorary 18th: our book-binder, Dan Wray) called /blankpage, this is a handmade book containing pages in paper, glass, fabric, collage, wax and plastic, and was the result of several months collaboration by members of Freelance.

The book was launched at a Private View on Friday 25 June, 2004 in The China Room, Christchurch Mansion, Ipswich, UK. The Web version of /blankpage was also launched on 25th June 2004 and remains available on the Creative Freelance web sit.

		Is it empty or is it a possibility? I love the idea of potential. What is behind the veil? What might be bubbling just under the surface. Start with just an impression. A thumb print. A whisper.

These paintings were created for a show in 2003 at the Market Cross Gallery in Bury St Edmunds called Twisted. These paintings depict the figure twisting and dancing in space and time — with gesture and form you can examine the areas of life that have no words. I have used a triptych format showing three figures — a girl, a pregnant woman and an older woman each representing three ages of 'man' or the three graces. The separate canvasses indicate how, while we go through life alone, we are nevertheless linked to our past and future selves, and to the world about us. The format and the use of blue echo the timelessness of the renaissance.

"My overall theme is the strong and positive view of women; so my pregnant woman is dancing, full of vitality and power; not passive and waiting, but active and creative.

My older woman is moving full of life, strong and sensual, as I perceive those around me to be.

And my girl spins and turns enjoying the free feeling of growing. An exploratory, inquisitive and intelligent girl."

They were shown again at a solo show in 2004 at the The Artists Gallery, Ipswich 2004 (Solo show) and again at Galerie St Fiacre, Nantes, France, 2004.