Val Gleave began making art in the early nineties out of an "urgent need to create". Although she enjoys using a variety of mediums and techniques from, photography, computer art and clay modelling, it is her, oil and acrylic paintings which give her the most intense gratification. Fascinated by the changing effects of the landscape, her work explores the effect of light on colour and often reflects the climate when it is at it's most poignant of moments. Currently studying painting at the Hampstead Institute, UK she has recently begun to exhibit her work in London.