Pip works in many mediums watercolour, pencil, acrylic, pastels but has a particular love for oil paints. She loves the fluidity of the paint. The diversity of it thick or translucent and the ability to move it around and mix it directly on the canvas. She paints intuitively, exploring colour and form using a variety of brushstrokes, different techniques and spontaneity of mark making to produce contemporary, expressive paintings.

Inspired primarily from life, particularly nature. She is especially interested in the relationship between the variety of colours and mixing them to create richness and vibrancy.

Her collection of work is the abundance of flowers and foliage.

In her large canvases, mixed bunches of garden and wildflowers are collected in vintage jugs. She combines the chaos of colour, shape and structure of the unruly flowers against the stark simplicity of the old, simple ceramics vessels. Pip wanted to get a sense of the natural forms rather than a representational view. Using oil paint, oil pastels and oil bars to create those feelings of leaves, waxy and shiny and flowers layered, to get solid form, but also wiped back, to create translucent papery petals. Abstracting shapes and forms. Touching still life, as well as looking, allowing the natural to dominate.

The series of paintings in the Wild Meadows collection are Pip's representation of forgotten gardens and summer open meadows.  Nature left to its own devices. Weeds, entangled flowers, grasses, bushes growing unkempt, but still those wild flowers continue to flourish and burst with colour.

Spontaneous, gestural, mark making with semi-abstract forms, combined with space and colour to capture that rich mix of diverse, wild beauty found in nature.

Originally from Brighton, England. Pip currently lives and works in Canada. She studied Textile design at Nottingham Trent University. For over twenty years Pip has designed fashion fabrics and worked in illustration and design, often with florals and plants. Loose, tight, expressive or to a specific brief. Her paintings are an extension of this narrative, but with a different freedom, new energy and a continued love of colour.