I've been an artist for many years and my work has changed and shifted several times over the decades - but one thing that all my work has had in common is the joy of finding inspiration in what is often seen as mundane or ordinary. I think we can all learn from young children who find such excitement in all the normal, every day stuff that surrounds them - there is joy in finding a great stick, wonderment in the tiny bug that is climbing up the window and fascination with all the shapes that the clouds can make.

We really don't need to lose this ordinary joy and life is much richer if we don't.

My work is currently taking another shift and I am just embarking on a new series of paintings inspired by the opening line from the poem 'Auguries of Innocence' by William Blake. I have always been fascinated by the small, ordinary details in every day things - the shapes, colours and patterns that we rarely notice - and this opening line 'To see a world in a grain of sand..' perfectly sums up what I want these paintings to be about.

We live in such a rich, visual world - but we miss so much of it. I hope this series of paintings will make you stop, and look twice at the ordinary things you wouldn't normally pause over. We miss so much as we stare at our phones, or rush by things in our busy lives, and I want this new body of work to help you see things through fresh eyes and to appreciate how much beauty and fascination is out there - hiding in plain sight amongst the boring and the every day.

And it starts with bubble wrap...!