Brigitte Girling, an artist from Suffolk, creates bold, colourful, quirky art to make you smile and brighten up your home. Brigitte is inspired by her unruly wildlife garden and the simple pleasure of bringing snippets of the outside inside to create whimsically imagined still lifes. A former floral designer, Brigitte remembers the messy mayhem of her pots, bowls, mugs of tea, plants and flowers strewn across tabletops as she worked. Her daily dog walks occasionally inspire semi abstract landscapes too.

Brigitte delights in playing with paint, thinking about the colours she sees outside in her garden and the wider Suffolk landscape and how being in nature makes her feel. She doesn't plan much. She creates intuitively, from her imagination, until the painting chooses to reveal itself. This process leads to the build-up of many layers resulting in a uniquely beautiful textured surface full of past ideas, scratches, scrapes, washes, marks and colour.

Brigitte says this discovery method of painting makes her really happy. It's a free-flowing process where the painting decides what it wants to be. It's her way of capturing the joy and spontaneity that comes with being creatively present in the moment.

Website: www.brigittegirling.co.uk

Instagram: @brigittegirling