Penny creates loose expressive semi abstract paintings in both watercolour and mixed media inspired by her local valley fen landscape, flowers and natural forms.

The small elements in nature, the flowing grasses, the tiny wild flowers on their delicate stems, the stones, pebbles, lost feathers and fallen twigs call to her, and it is these that inform much of her work.

Based on the Norfolk/Suffolk border, with the beautiful and inspiring valley fens on her doorstep, this is a landscape she has come to love. It’s a landscape that inspires her painting.

Before working as an artist, she ran her own greeting card company for 25 years. In 2019 she was able to sell the business, and has been painting since then.

Before her business, Penny was an archaeologist, working on many sites in the UK and overseas, and she spent several years working on flint tools in the British Museum. It was the small details that were important to her as an archaeologist, and now it’s the small details of the landscape and flora that pull her in. All this, and more, feeds into her art and art practice