For me it is a way to see new areas of Cornwall that I haven't visited or painted before. Starting at Bude and finishing this part of the walk at Padstow. An area that I know very little about. It is a challenging stretch of the coast. Very wild with steep and rugged cliffs, dramatic skies and sweeping white sands of the Camel estuary. It has been a fantastic first stage, even if the legs felt tired.

My walk covers the entire Cornish Coastal path in approximately 100 mile stretches. Each section of the walk will provide the inspiration and subject matter for a new series of paintings that will he shown in a one woman exhibition and documented in a dedicated book which will also serve as the exhibition catalogue.

Distinctive Locations
These new collections are not intended as a day to day diary account or to catalogue each mile of my journey, but concentrate on specific views that are of particular interest to me. These locations can sometimes be just cliff top views of distant sea and sky or distinctive geographical locations of beaches and estuaries.

Bude to Padstow
For this first section of my long term project I walked from Bude, westwards to just the otherside of Padstow. This is unknown territory for me, as I have always lived on the South coast of Cornwall. In response to this new stretch of coast my paintings have taken a new path and emanate a freshness and vitality with clean clear hues and a wonderful clarity of pure coastal light. Calm tones in a myriad of blues in my interpretation of sea and sky are accompanied by soft touches of warmer pinks and ochres in cliff top grasses and long sandy beaches.

Padstow to Cape Cornwall
I am now onto the next leg of my walking tour which is approximately 80 miles taking in St. Agnes, Zenna, St. Ives, Godrevy and then finally on to Cape Cornwall which is where I will be spending the majority of my painting time on the section of the walk.

Artist / Explorer
By embarking on this new artistic endeavour I am locating myself beside many emirtent and respected artists who have also taken on the dual role of artist/explorer. I am charting new ground here, in this new work I hope to navigate new ideas, it is a bold adventure.