Swift and Dove relate to my love of birds.

“From an early age I was interested in birds. I think that this

interest may have originated from my early years when we had

a pet budgerigar who continually sat beside my cot and high

chair. For me birds have come to represent freedom and a state of

innocence.

In my use of pictorial space I often use the idea of looking down

at the landscape, like looking at a map or looking down from a

plane; the bird’s eye view.

Bird migration is mapped through gestural lines. The migration

of the swift navigates some three thousand miles from Africa to

Europe in our spring and back to Africa through our Autumn.

The flight of the dove returning to Noah’s Ark with an olive

branch; a symbol for hope and peace.

Both journeys symbolising ecological significance”