I have been exhibiting my work since 2007, including with Martin Tinney at his galleries in North and South Wales.

I am currently represented by Ffin-y-Parc gallery in Llandudno.

I love the quiet act of arranging several things next to each other on a table or windowsill, celebrating household objects and the natural world.

In my pictures, I aim to share the spark felt by placing a ceramic jug full of flowers from the garden or hedgerow, on a patterned piece of fabric.

Most of my work is painted on paper in gouache, etched into with a metal point and worked over in chalk pastel.

Encouraged by creative parents, I have drawn and painted since childhood. Growing up, my mother’s beautiful sketchbooks (she studied art at Liverpool in the 1950ies) were a fundamental source of stimulation.

My sister, Gill Gathercole is also a practicing artist, and great inspiration. Other influences include Mary Fedden, Winifred Nicholson and Mary Newcomb.

An elderly woman with gray hair, wearing a dark long-sleeve shirt, is painting on a canvas inside a room with several colorful artworks on the walls. She is standing near a window that shows greenery outside.

In the studio © Stewart Alexander

Greetings cards of my work are available from gift shops, art galleries and museums across the UK, printed by Silver Birch Cards, a lovely company based in mid-Wales.