I studied ceramics at Bournemouth College of Art in the 1970s and afterwards for many years made mugs in a shed. Coming up for air in the mid 90s I ventured out to Abingdon College and Sunningwell School of Art to try to learn to paint and have been enjoying painting enormously ever since.

My subjects are usually landscapes or still life, or sometimes people; using acrylics, which I love; the use of dry brush, rollers, glazes, drawing and printing can all add to the complex broken colour effect I find exciting. I am currently involved with Blewbury Thursday Art Group.

I'm also involved in folk music and morris dancing, bell ringing, writing and reading poems, looking for glow-worms on summer nights, and driving my Morris Minor.

I like sheds. I live in a wooden 1930s bungalow my grandfather built just outside Cumnor, surrounded by sheds, with my husband Pete (churchwarden, railway buff, canal enthusiast, largely silent).

We are the group who usually exhibit in Peach Croft Barn, Abingdon. Our exhibition this year is at South Lawn Barn, Appleton - in my local village. The exhibition contains paintings, prints, textiles, jewellery, ceramics and mixed media work and it will be a pleasure to exhibit with this talented bunch of artists once again.

I am still cheerfully enjoying acrylic paint and deriving inspiration from local places and faraway ones; trips to Scotland always provide exciting subjects.