About
I am a painter who works in oil, watercolour, collage and stained glass. Though I come from a strong family background in commercial art, I am attached to the English landscape tradition.
The aim is to make visual the emotional response to nature and the elements, the eye recognising universal connection with natural form in all its variety.
My work inhabits the place between description and abstraction, the known and unknown. Abstract composition allows more spaciousness and potential for forms to emerge as an organic outcome of the act of creation.
Currently I am working to commission and selling to private buyers. I also run two classes in drawing and watercolour.
BACKGROUND
1979-80 Foundation course in Art and Design, Brighton Polytechnic
1980-83 BA Fine Art, Central School of Art, London WC1
1982 Study at Ecole de Beaux Arts, Quimper, France
1983 Scholarship to Siena from Italian Government, to study Sienese Trecento Art
1985-87 Post-graduate diploma in Stained Glass, Central School of Art, London WC1
WORK EXPERIENCE
1996 Short-listed for stained glass commission, new Derby Children’s Hospital
1993-4 Visiting lecturer in drawing and watercolour, Grove Park Adult Education Institute, London
1988-93 In-house artist, Sloane Square Tiles, London, SW3
1987-93 Stained glass window design and fabrication
1991 Shortlisted for public commission, Cannock Community Hospital
1989,1990 Freelance set design and production, Set Partners Ltd, London W1
1989 Appeared in BBC TV series Handmade (Feb/Mar), 3 week demonstration, construction of etched, stained glass panel
1988 Commission; function reception at Camden Arts Centre Gallery, London NW3
1988-89 Visiting lecturer in stained glass, Morley College, London SE1
1985-86 Stained glass construction for Lead and Light Studios, London NW1
1984-85 Stained glass construction for Goddard and Gibbs Studios, London E2
PUBLICATIONS
1993 Commission for project in watercolour for Watercolour – Colour, pub. Dorling Kindersley
Reproduction in Watercolour – Landscape, pub. Dorling Kindersley
EXHIBITIONS
2013 One woman show, The Galleries, Freshford, Bath
2010 One woman show, The Ale & Porter, Bradford-on-Avon
2005 One woman show, Art House Gallery, Bradford-on-Avon
2003 Joint exhibition, Southstoke Hall, Bath
Joint exhibition, The Art House, Bradford-on-Avon
2002 Joint exhibition, Open Festival, Lewes
1996 One woman show, The Podium Gallery, Bath
1991-94 Regular exhibitor, Gallery on the Heath, London SE3
1993 Group exhibition, Ozten Zeki Gallery, London SW3
1991 Group exhibition, Lethaby Gallery, Central St. Martin’s School of Art, “The Cecil Collins Connection”
One woman show, Henry Thomas Gallery, Carmarthen
Group exhibition, Mall Galleries, London SW1
Group exhibition, Woodlands Gallery, London, SE3
1990 Group exhibition, Tysoe Manor, Warwickshire
Group exhibition, Private show, London SW6
Group exhibition, Mall Galleries, London SW1
Group exhibition, Woodlands Galleries, London SE3
1989 Group exhibition, Woodlands Galleries, London SE3
One woman show, Tunbridge Wells Museum and Art Gallery
Group exhibition, Mall Galleries, London SW1
Group exhibition, Tudor Barn, London SE9
Group exhibition, CANDID ’89, Business Design Centre, London N1
1988 Group exhibition, Smiths Gallery, London WC2
Group exhibition, Mall Galleries, London SW1
1987 One woman show, Theatr Gwynedd, Bangor, N Wales
Group exhibition, Cottage Place Gallery, London SW3
1986 One woman show, Yehudi Menuhin School, Cobham, Surrey
One woman show, Tavistock Centre, London NW3
Group exhibition, Cottage Place Gallery, London SW3
Open exhibition, Oriel y Ddraig, Blaneau Ffestiniog, N Wales,
One woman show, Mostyn Gallery, Llandudno, N Wales