My love affair with collecting papers began when I was a child. I had the silly idea that if I carefully stored them under my bed that, by osmosis, I would learn to read. Of course it didn't work! Now my work is all about paper(s) : torn, coloured, layered every imaginable kind. Over the years I have collected scores of paper, photographs and small artifacts to use in my artwork. Currently I am exploring painting on translucent layered surface.