Visiting Susanna's beautiful exhibition today reminded me how art and what it means to me has changed over the years. I recently read a novel by Margaret Foster, 'Keeping the World Away' based on the artist Gwen John and a small painting she did of an interior, the attic room in Paris where she lived and worked. Looking at Susanna's paintings brought to mind this painting and its view, John's view, of a wicker chair, parasol and some primulas and its gentle yet charged light and space....

In this exhibition, I investigate the concept of "Home" and the factors that help establish a feeling of home. The pebbly beach, the winding river, the windswept marshes, all conjure up so many happy memories that for me, Suffolk fills a home-shaped hole. Many of the paintings will resonate with others who enjoy the signature hollyhocks, coloured houses, town steps and the sea. Interspersed are paintings of houses and interiors discovered around the coast of Devon and Guernsey - communities...