Henrietta aims to evoke time and place, using colour and light. She paints in thin layers, laying paint over paint to exploit its transparency. Henrietta's current collection of paintings is inspired by her time in her new studio in Neffies, France.

Henrietta's formative influences included Georgio Morandi, Paul Cézanne, Georges Braque, Mark Rothko, Robert Motherwell, and Clyfford Still. Morandi is remembered for pointing out that "There is nothing more abstract than the visible world", and, in her own way, Henrietta has set out to make abstract compositions out of things she has seen, and been moved by: "A world observed and translated - a world created from the natural and the man-made: 'still life' a still life both drawn and felt, as one would admire and caress a well-loved jug, or wonder at the light on the water of the Thames on a calm spring morning" - was how she put it some years ago, and it still holds true.

Henrietta's paintings have developed over the years from abstracts based on still life to compositions woven from images taken from the natural world. Her inspiration as always is from what she has seen. The compositions are worked up from extensive drawing, both of the landscape and of still life groups set up in the studio. The finished pieces range from almost totally abstract compositions evoking a sense of place to more easily recognisable landscape images: the natural world modulated by time and season, disclosed by visual texture and colour.

Colour and light play the most important roles in her work. Colour is used to evoke emotion, and gives a sense of time and place; light is used to create space and to mask and hide objects, creating a sense of mystery.