About
Hello and welcome to my website.
Making images has always been a part of Pauline’s life whether through the lens of a camera, using needle and thread or paint and canvas. One of her earliest abstract attempts was decorating a large wooden chest on wheels which came from her grandfather’s house. For years, her parents kept buckets, spades and beach toys in it but recently it has returned to her home.
Pauline has lived for many years in County Durham on the edge of Weardale, an area of hill sheep farms, untamed rugged fells and the reminder of earlier lead and coal mining activity in the north east of England.
A keen photographer from an early age, Pauline developed a love for the power in black and white images and printing her own work. A change in circumstances and the arrival of digital cameras, caused a refocus and since 2000 Pauline has concentrated on painting. She loves working in oils which are a very tactile and expressive medium. Her more recent works are often made with a palette knife. She tends to focus on landscape and still life, plus the odd quirky idea.
Pauline also creates abstract paintings, experimenting with the opportunities presented by the fluidity of acrylic.
It’s not how good the result is, it’s the act of creating something, trying to convey what is in the artist’s mind and how the artist sees it that is important. If the image speaks to others then that is a bonus. I hope that you will find something among these images which speaks to you.
Since taking part in her first exhibition in 1992, when she was delighted that two of her photographic works were bought by the Side Gallery in Newcastle Upon Tyne, Pauline has exhibited her work in various locations across the region, including regular showings at Snod’s Edge Art Festival in Northumberland.
“Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time”
Thomas Merton