Henrietta

I paint abstracts in oil on canvas, based on 'things seen': formerly still life, now mostly landscape, in which I aim to evoke time and place, using colour and light. I paint in thin layers, laying paint over paint to exploit its transparency, a technique of which Turner and Titian were both masters. My latest inspiration has come from visits to the West coast of Scotland and the West Sussex coastline. I was awarded a residency in Kerry Ireland in February 2019 at Cill Rialaig and the west coast of Ireland is giving my most recent pieces a deeper sense of magic.

My formative influences included Georgio Morandi, Paul Cézanne, Georges Braque, Mark Rothko, Robert Motherwell, and Clyfford Still. Morandi is remembered for pointing out that "There is nothing more abstract than the