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I am the daughter of a builder, so having been around building sites in my childhood, I learnt a lot about materials & design aspects from my father. I spent many years doing cake decorating, working with the architecture of tiered cakes, modelling & sculpturing aspects of sugar craft.

I then moved in a more spiritual direction & done a course in colour healing which gave me an in depth understanding about colour. Which developed into insights into ethereal dimensions, other wordly places as I developed my intuition & empathy. These combined elements gave me a good foundation for art practices & design in many areas of life.

However I discovered in studying light & colour, in art practices, I had to study the shadows too. I could not do one without the other, due to the balance of the ying & yang in life.

My inspiration for contemporary art is either about abstract painting practices as a colourist where I study light. Ethereal realms, that which is unsolid in nature, sourced from beyond physical reality for interpretation, which I then translate into an art form. Bringing what is in the ethers into physical solid matter, whilst I follow Ruldolph Stieners theories of the spirited in art practices & his school of thought on spiritual consciousness as a channel for light.

Or the playful aspect of interpretating shadows with theatrical ghost costumes used in performance art or mini theatre sets which I photograph or film. Where I use the theories of the shadows from Carl Jungs school of thought. This art practice is also spontaneous & adventurous with many possibilities & the images are often enhanced with digiital media.

As art to me is a spiritual practice where I can observe the external seen physicality of color, textures, materials, shadow & light. Or see beyond into ethereal dimensions to observe the colours within light or the lack of colour in the shadows, which are informed by my second esoteric website, www.mysticpenelope.com which is a foundation for energy healing, psychic clairvoyant practices I do as a light worker. Which gives me an in depth understanding about colour, soul & spirt, the inner world of feeling, being, seeing, energy & vibration.

Hence my life has now become a meditation of colour, researching light, where my awareness gives me insights into the shadows of humanity, the unwanted darker shadow aspects of the human psyche.

I paint, sew, use photography & digital media to create art which are expressions of what I perceive, understand & interpretate in art practices in viewing shadows & light.