May 2017. Welcome to my new website! It has been a long time coming but it was worth the wait, I think. I hope you will enjoy looking at it and be interested by what you see. Please get in touch with me by email or by phone. The Contact me page will supply all the details. My doors are always open to visitors, but strictly by appointment.

This rebirth of my website also marks, I hope, a rebirth in my work. In 2014 I suffered a bereavement which followed months of hospital visits in London. Initial hopes dashed by the inexorable progress of the disease and the final sad outcome. I was physically and emotionally drained. Even after a lovely trip to Ireland with a good friend and going to India to fulfil my last duties to the departed, visit family, travel and generally having a wonderful time, 2015 came and went and I found myself unable to work. I had never experienced the ‘block’ before. After years of struggling to find enough hours in the day to produce all the creative work which was buzzing round my head, everything had suddenly dried up. I tried not to panic but it became increasingly harder as 2016 rolled by and my inability to think creatively began to look like a permanent state. Mercifully, I seem to have broken the mould and ideas are once again flowing from my head into my hands. Now I also realise that these months of comparative idleness were far from being wasted. I travelled a lot during this period of mourning and reflection, read widely and I am sure that in the long run my work will benefit from these experiences. Nevertheless, I am sure glad to be back at work!

As featured in ‘The World of Interiors Magazine’

At the end June 2017 I am going to fulfil a dream which is to attend Richard Wagner’s Der Ring des Nibelungen in Leipzig, Germany. I was fortunate enough to hear the four operas that constitute the Ring, performed on four consecutive evenings in the unique setting of Bayreuth. This was during the five years I spent in Germany in the mid to late sixties while attending university in Regensburg. It was a fascinating time of discoveries for me and of friendship-making. My closest university friend’s family were regular visitors to Bayreuth and I was taken there – a young girl freshly arrived from India, whose knowledge of European operatic music was sketchy to say the least! Talk about love at first sight. I was completely enchanted by The Ring, the strange watery world of the Rhine maidens, stolen rings, dragons and the universal conflict between love and power. Above all, the enthralling music and the extraordinary voices soaring above the audience made for a powerful experience which never dimmed for me.

In Leipzig Das Rheingold and Die Walküre will be performed on two consecutive evenings, one day off, then Siegfried and Götterdümmerung on two more evenings. Before the opera cycle begins I will have one day to travel by train to Dessau to visit the Bauhaus sites. Can’t wait!