About me

I moved to Pembrokeshire in 1995 with my husband, Raul Speek (see his website www.raulspeek.co.uk). We’re based in a beautiful stone-built Welsh chapel in the coastal village of Solva. Here, we run Raul Speek Gallery, which houses my work and Raul’s, as well as that of local artists like Ian McDonald. To one side of the gallery we run a café, which is usually open from spring until late autumn, offering hot and cold drinks, tapas meals and a choice of wines and local beers (we have a full licence). In the summer we hold tapas and live music nights once a month – you’ll find more about that on Raul’s site. The gallery also has a shop.

I’m one of the four founders of an initiative to create an e-magazine promoting art in Wales (ARTicle) and its links to the wider world. This is connected to a not-for-profit website: www.artpembrokeshire.co.uk

I’ve had the chance to start writing again, a long time after I took an honours degree in English Literature. It feels great to combine my two main loves again – images and words. You can read copies of some of my articles for this, and for Pembrokeshire Life and the BFP, on this website. There’s a series of booklets too, which follow each of the recent exhibitions and contain poems exploring why the images came into being and what they mean to me.

I was also until recently, following the death of my mother, editor of the Fishguard Arts Society Magazine, and I hope to be more involved in that again.

Access to the internet means we’re all far more aware of issues facing the world and mankind today than we were able to be before. We’re more immediately connected to one another and the world we live in. Through my work, I try to share my own view of the journey we’re on: in landscape, in glimpses of people within this, and in objects that cut through the complexity to offer a simplicity I’ve come to believe we need.