Bio:

I grew up in Wiltshire, UK and relocated to Devon in 2021. After gaining a B.Ed Hons. in art and design I taught for 30+ years in secondary education, teaching media studies and art to 6th form level. In 2000 I took a PG Dip. in Interactive Multimedia. After early retirement we moved to the SW and I took a postgraduate Masters in Printmaking at Arts University Plymouth 2018-20 and I’m now a full time artist with a studio in Peverell, Plymouth.

I’m a Friend of the Double Elephant print studio, Exeter, and I’m currently the PrintKin lead at Camp, an artist-led group with some 190+ members across Devon and Cornwall. I’ve also recently joined Drawn to the Valley, a group of artists based around the location of the River Tamar.

CV:

Education:

2018-20: Plymouth College of Art, MA in Printmaking: passed with Distinction

2000-01: Bath Spa UC: PGDip Interactive Multimedia: Passed with Distinction

1979-1984: Wolverhampton Polytechnic: B.Ed. Hons. Art and Design

Cert. Ed Teaching Certificate: Art and Design (Dudley College of Education)

Group Exhibitions:

2024: Walking Women at Falmouth Art Gallery, March- 27 April

2023: Artmill Gallery 400 Exhibition, Feb. - March 2023

2022: Artmill Gallery Christmas Show, Peverell, Plymouth, Nov. 22- Jan. 2023

2022: How Long? Exhibition and events programme by CAMP artists at Vacancy Atlas, Plymouth, Nov. 2022

2022: One Minute! Film Festival - hosted by Maketank at Positive Light Projects, Exeter, Sept. 2022

2022: Green Hill Arts Open, Moretonhampstead - April/July - ‘Dahlias 3’ digital print selected and hung

2021: Masters Summer show, PCA, Plymouth and at the Salthouse Gallery, St.Ives in September 2021; Open Studios Krowji, Dec. 2021

2021: Online: Newlyn Gallery ‘Lost Exhibitions’ https://www.instagram.com/p/CLlwqBbL1tT/

2020: Took part in the John Howard annual show at The Poly, Falmouth (Nov. 2020)

2020: Ironbridge Fine Arts gallery Winter exhibition; (due to Covid19, Open Studios Cornwall was canceled as was our MA Show)

2019: Ironbridge Fine Arts gallery Winter exhibition; Open Studios Cornwall in May

2018: RE Masters Screen and Stone: ‘Seaweed v13’ selected and hung

2017: Foto5 group show of gum bichromate and cyanotype prints, Bristol

2016: Group show of work at Westonbirt School

2013: Press Gang, Brewery Barn, Norton St. Philip, Bath

2013: Bath Open Print [1 print hung]

2013: RWA Open Exhibition [1 print hung]