Collage using acrylic gelli-plate printed papers on board

24.3cm W x 31cm H

£80 

This piece was inspired by the memory of watching 4 eagles (parents and offspring) circling over the distant mountains, and then one came nearer and passed quite close over our heads. It felt very special.

Collage using acrylic gelli-plate printed papers 

30.5cm W x 30.5cm H, 

with frame 34cm W x 34cm H

Float-mounted 

£165

I saw this bird in the grounds of Kendal castle. I love the colourful sheen on the back and tail feathers.

Collage using acrylic gelli-plate printed papers

30.5cm W x 30.5cm H

with frame 34cm W x 34cm H

Float-mounted

£165

Nuthatches blend in so well that I don’t often see them, but in autumn when the leaves fall, it is easier to catch a glimpse of them foraging along the branches.

Collage using acrylic gelli-plate printed papers on watercolour backgound.

27.5cm W x 11.4cm H

with frame & glass 38cm W x 22.5cm H

£165 

I often watch the herons as they hunt along the banks and among the stones in the middle of the River Lune. I love their stillness and angular positions.

Collage using acrylic gelli-plate printed papers.

38.3cm W x 13.2cm H

with frame 48.5cm W x 23.5cm H

£165 

The edge of the sea must be a liminal space for a creature like the crab which can live in the water and on land. This crab seems to just be at a temporary rest before the swirling tide moves it on.

Collage on paper using acrylic gelli-plate printed papers

14.5cm W x 29.7cm H

With mount 22.5cm W x 37.5cm H.

£70 

I love the way these day-flying moths cluster together as they feed on the pollen.

Collage on paper using acrylic gelli-plate printed papers

33.5cm W x 13.6cm H

with mount 41.4cm W x 21.4cm H

£140

I have often explored the Forest of Bowland . This is part memory, part imagination. The hills of Bowland in their patchwork colours at the end of an autumn day seemed to need a kestrel hovering overhead, though I have more often seen gulls or buzzards.

Collage on paper using acrylic gelli-plate printed papers on watercolour background, mounted on board. Wax-finish, float mounted

34cm H a & W x 3.5cm D

£180

This moorhen nest was right under the windows of a hide at Leighton Moss RSPB Reserve, but everyone else ignored them and scanned with binoculars for birds in the distance. The tiny chicks were such a delight to watch.

Collage on paper using acrylic gelli-plate printed papers

18.2cm x 18.2cm

with mount 26cm sq.

£60 

Orange-tip butterflies and cuckooflowers are such a characteristic sign of spring in the damp meadows near me. The idea for this picture grew from the spring-like colours and patterns of the gelli-printed background.

Collage on paper using acrylic gelli-plate printed papers

18.2cm x 18.2cm

with mount 26cm sq.

£60 

A background gelli-print suggested the tangle of weeds in a pond. Clearly this was somewhere that koi would like to live. Here they are swimming to the surface to feed on a bright morning. This is based on a memory from many years ago.

33.1cm H and W, framed

£165

On a walk near Shap in autumn 2023 we came across a host of goldfinches on a large patch of teasels. They were too far away to see them clearly and flew off as we drew near. So I took many photos of goldfinches on my bird feeder to aid this composition.

23.8cm H X 27.6cm W, mount 34.2cm H x 38cm H

£90

Sometimes pictures don’t work out and languish in a folder until I take them out and tear them up to remake as a collage. The birch trees came from a walk in bla some years ago, but needed a woodpecker to inhabit them.

Polymer clay, paper, fabric, wire, acrylic, glue

20.5cm W x 25.4cm H x 3.5cm D

£285 

This piece was inspired by the wonderful regeneration of Lamlach Bay, Arran and contains a few of the special animals to be found there: the tiny curled octopus, seven-armed starfish,  cuckoo wrasse and young cod. It was a challenge to make the fish translucent and to make the all-important kelp fronds which give them shelter.

Polymer clay, card, acrylic, glue

20.5cm W x 25.4cm H x 3.5cm D

£305 

The various forms of corals are such fun to study and create. Of course the diorama needed inhabitants; the pair of clownfish hiding in their favourite anemones, the pair of butterfly fish guarding each other and a translucent jelly fish drifting by.

Wall-hung Sculpture

Polymer clay, paper, card, acrylic, glue

19.7cm W x 19.7cm H x 3.3cm D

£185 

An octopus at Lamlash Bay, Arran, with her collection of shells, algae and corals. It gave me an artistic conundrum; how to represent a creature that likes to camouflage itself, as I did not want the octopus to disappear entirely.

Wall-hung Sculpture

Polymer clay, paper, card, wire, acrylic, glue

19.7cm W x 19.7cm H x 3.3cm D 

£185

I imagined this lobster at Lamlash Bay crouching under a rock near a bed of maerl – a hard algae that forms spiky underwater carpets. It took me several experiments to work out how to give an impressionistic representation of these algae.

Sculpture; wood, polymer clay,

 acrylic, glue

£90 

I have placed many pieces of white lichen on this complex ivy twig. I wanted the colour of the lichen to stand out in its simplicity from the complex structure.

Sculpture;  wood, polymer clay, acrylic, glue.

30cm W x 6cm D x 8.7cm H

Customised box

£70 

So many fungi grow on fallen wood so when I found this lovely twig I wanted to embellish it with some of the many forms I have found in the woods.

Sculpture; wood, polymer clay, acrylic, glue.

16cm W x 7cm D x 3.5cm H

Customised box

19.2cm W x 9.5cm D x 4.5cm H

£70 

This piece of wood is exquisitely wrinkled, and the various white fungi forms nestle into the folds.

Sculpture; wood, polymer clay, acrylic, glue.

14cm W x 11cm D x 5.5cm H

Customised box

16.9cm W x 13.5cm D x 7cm H

£80 

I think this fungus (pleurotellus porrigens) has such a lovely shape, and it made a change to have a pure white colour.

Sculpture;  wooden eggcup, polymer clay, acrylic, glue

7cm x  5.5cm x 9.7cm H

Customised box 

10cm W x 8cm D x 12.3cm H

£70 

I found a pair of hand-turned eggcups in a charity shop.

What if nature reclaimed them with toadstools?

Sculpture;  wooden eggcup, polymer clay, acrylic, glue

8cm x  6.5cm x 10cm H

Customised box 

9cm W x 6.5cm D x 11.6cm H

£70 

I found a pair of hand-turned eggcups in a charity shop.

What if nature reclaimed them with toadstools and ladybirds?

Sculpture; tin, polymer clay, acrylic, glue

8.5cm x  8.5cm x 3.7cm H

£80 

A neighbour gave me a tuna fish can, with patterned metal outside.

I could not resist making a fishy scene inside it.

Sculpture;  wood, card, paper, polymer clay, acrylic, glue

11cm x  11cm x 16cm H

Customised box 

14cm x 14cm x 21.8cm H

£80 

I was playing with a restricted pallette, circling around a lavender colour.

Purple is my favourite colour – of any shade.

Sculpture;  wooden box, glass, polymer clay, acrylic, glue

15.5cm W x  15.5cm D x 4cm H closed, 16.8cm H open

£70 

I started looking very closely at lichen on the rocks in Silverdale.

I love the various shapes and often bright, contrasting colours of the fruiting bodies.

Sculpture;  box, paper, polymer clay, acrylic, glue

8cm W x  6cm D x 3.2cm H closed, 9.5cm H open

£55 

It is still an ambition of mine to find earthstars in Gaits Barrow. I am told they are there, but hard to see.

I try every autumn. Until I find them, I look at these instead.

Sculpture;  box, paper, polymer clay, acrylic, glue

6cm W x  6.5cm D x 3.5cm H closed, 8cm H open

£55 

It is always such a pleasure to see these large bright fungi in my local woods.

Sculpture;  box, paper, card, polymer clay, acrylic, glue

5cm W x  5cm D x 3cm H closed, 6.6cm H open

£40 

The sight of scarlet elf-cups always cheers me up on the gloomy winter day.

Sculpture; wood, polymer clay, acrylic, glue.

6.5cm W x 16cm D x 17.6cm H

£80 

Trooping Crumble Cap is a common sight in Silverdale.

I have added the tiny eyelash fungus, which is much harder to find.

Sculpture; box, card, wire, polymer clay, acrylic, glue

16cm W x 13.8cm D x 5cm H

£80 

This box was deep enough to create a ledge for a creature to hide under. What creature would it be – a sea lemon or a shrimp? The shrimp won, though it was a challenge to create.

Sculpture; tin, polymer clay, acrylic, glue

8.5cm x 8.5cm x 3.7cm H

£80 

I fell in love with nudibranchs when I discovered them. There are over 100 species found in UK waters. Rainbow nudibranchs feed on the tentacles of the tube anemone. They bite off the tips of the tube anemone's tentacles – don’t worry - its tentacles grow back. The complexity of the colouring of the rainbow nudibranch made me choose to create its cerata from pre-coloured blue/pink polymer clay and only use paint to make the tips yellow.

Sculpture; wood, polymer clay, acrylic, glue

9.2cm W x 9.3cm D x 13.2cm H

£80 

The turkey tail is a small, tough, bracket fungus that grows in tiered layers on dead wood. It has rings of different colours, which made it a perfect candidate for using pre-coloured polymer clay. I was astonished to learn that is has a so-far-unproven ability to improve response to cancer medicines and radiation.

Sculpture; polymer clay, 

paper, wire, acrylic, glue

11cm H x 10cm W x 3.5cm D

£80 

A celebration of a jewel-like insect; the UK’s red-headed cardinal beetle.