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. To one side of the gallery we run a café, which is usually open from spring until late autumn, offering hot and cold drinks and cakes with occasional pop-up tapas boards and a choice of wines and local beers (we have a full licence). In the summer we hold tapas and live music nights you’ll find more about that on Raul’s site. The gallery also sells jewellery and art materials..

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 Pembrokeshire Life, Fishguard Arts Society and the BFP, on this website. There are also some older ones which I wrote for Article the e magazine which was part of Artists Pembrokeshire when it ran. 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’m writing a novel too and have another image book half way there called A Cuban Diary.

I was also until recently, following the death of my mother, editor of the Fishguard Arts Society Magazine and still write for them regularly – they are a great group of people so do check out their site https://fishguardartssociety.org.uk/, They work hard and encourage and support a lot of local artists.

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.