As a practising artist as well as the fund development and communications officer at Two Rivers Gallery – people often ask where do I get my ideas from?

Artists over the generations have different inspirational moments. Some might say their inspiration is the beauty of nature, or the majesty of the mountains, or the treachery of the sea. Or even the tenacity of an ant.

For me I am inspired by my everyday life. By the things around me. By the people I love and even the things they say. For instance the last major exhibition I had started off after a comment made by a friend in a pub the UK. After terrible service by the bartender I complained to my friend and he said ‘oh darling haven’t you noticed that when one gets older one becomes invisible’ .

And that was the beginning of me looking at the concept of invisibility. I experimented with photographs and drawings in and on glass, worked with thousands of glass beads as well as giving glass blowing a go. I worked with this concept for three years and it was done, or the comment was abated, after I installed the work at the Study Gallery in Poole England in 2003.   Check out this link and see the work http://www.thestudygallery.org/archive/other/03/6.html .

Inspiration is everywhere and it is every-day. It is always different for everybody.