ARTIST STATEMENT My inspiration comes from many sources: music, mostly jazz; repeat patterns from ceramic tiles; woven fabrics from Africa and Asia; other artists' work: Matisse, Kandinsky, Paul Klee, Howard Hodgkin and Bridget Riley. The colours of South Africa, where I grew up, and the Rietveld Academy, where I studied, remain strong and lasting influences in all my work. I have been affected by African art both directly and through the filter of European sensibility. The African influence is twofold: African art and fabrics inspired many of my favourite early twentieth century artists - such as Klee, Kandinsky and Brancusi. And growing up in South Africa, I absorbed directly and so have been able to draw on the features of African art that speak most immediately to me: its honesty, raw energy, sophisticated forms and playful improvisation in patterning. I am interested in exploring the power of colour and pattern. The intense colours that I use are woven together to create moods and atmospheres that relate to my memories and experiences of Africa, Europe and the United Kingdom. I have been using the theme of the 'Weave' and repeat patterns for a number of years, as symbols of order and chance, harmony and integration. My paintings on canvas and prints on paper are abstract but refer to landscapes and cityscapes. The works on canvas combine printing and painting, a technique first used by Andy Warhol, these mixed media canvases are abstract, contemplative, colour fields. Through abstraction I aspire towards the infinite rather than the specific. The works on paper are serigraph, (silk-screen) mono-prints, using concentrated colours that blend into each other. Recently Advanced Graphics London has printed a limited edition (100 of each) pair of silkscreen prints 'Delphi - Day' and 'Delphi - Night'.