I have been making art for as long as I can remember. I still have a scrapbook with collages from when I was five years old. Even then I clearly loved using colour and assembling materials and images.

Not a great deal has changed. Whenever I go into my studio it always makes me smile. Painting and printmaking to me is time for myself in my own personal space; time to order the world. 

I work in an almost entirely intuitive way, building and erasing and making lots of mistakes until, hopefully, I come through with something that feels entirely mine. Repeated themes have run through my practice for many years now. Jugs, pots bowls, stones, boodie (fragments of pottery) things of no great financial value that become treasure for me.

I graduated in Painting at Ravensbourne College of Art and Design in 1980 and went on complete an M.A in Printmaking at Chelsea College of Art and Design (1980-81). I have based myself in the Northeast of England since the early 80’s.

I have taught nationally and presented my research internationally. I have worked extensively on public art and participatory arts projects and served as a trustee for a number of Arts and Health Charities. I have over 40 years of printmaking and teaching experience. I was a Senior Lecturer in Fine Art at Sunderland University for 24 years (retired 2021) and I am still involved in participatory art projects . I have previously run a print studio at the Art Studio Sunderland. I now run my own home print studio Garden Press. I use this as a space to continue my artistic and teaching practice. It is also a space to stay connected to the community and arts and health work that continues to be very important to me.

Video Above: An introduction to me and my practice produced by University of Sunderland.

Images Below: Examples of some of my work, print and paintings.

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