The studio

Inside the studio

Bright studio with tall windows, easels and stacked canvases

Where every piece begins

Tall windows, paint-spattered floors and canvases stacked against every wall in an old Gemmayzeh house. Every piece starts here, usually with music on and coffee close by.

Young woman painting a colourful canvas at a kitchen table

Before the studio

Painting at the kitchen table

I painted at the kitchen table for years. Having a real studio changed the scale of my work and gave each series room to grow.

Tools and work in progress

Wooden palette with thick red, yellow and blue paint and a palette knife

Glass jars of paint brushes on a paint-spattered workbench

Palette knife applying a yellow stroke to a canvas

Easel with an unfinished abstract painting by a window

Finished canvases leaning against a white brick wall beside a stool