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A simple still life painted with shades of blue and mauve. The daisies turned out to be more stylized than I had intended. For me, the mood of the painting is set by the little doll's simplified and stylized face bringing a child-like sense of playfulness. The background is a mix of jester-style diamonds, music-notes, wallpaper patterns, hearts and bubbles with a little gold leaf thrown in for good measure. All of the pieces are painted with a sense of 'fun', yet the melancholic blues set the mood, making this piece give off a sense of the sweet and sad blended together.

I first became attracted to watercolour over 30 years ago on a painting holiday in Cornwall. I loved the immediacy and fluidity of the medium. When I painted the old rooftops of the quirky yet beautiful old buildings, colours ran together giving an organic feel to the moss and old slates. I felt like I'd discovered a magic colouring book! The watercolour captured the essence of my subjects in an ethereal way. Enchanted by the possibilities of creating a new, dream-like reality within my paintings, I developed my style with an emphasis on the effects I could achieve with Watercolour, by letting the paint and water form patterns in their own way. I love to break the old fashioned rules of the medium, pushing it to its limits. As...