BIOGRAPHY
I had an itinerant army childhood, moving homes and schools in the UK and abroad often within the year. This has led to a life-long curiosity about other cultures and a need to travel the world.
I studied textiles in Hornsey and Croydon art colleges in the late revolutionary 1960s, mosaics in the Ecole de Beaux-Arts in Paris in the early 70s, followed by a graduate Art Therapy diploma. I practiced as an art therapist in psychiatric institutions and schools until the late 1980s.
With children at school and wishing to work from home, I set up a business, making and painting folding screens to commission, painting and antiquing furniture, and creating murals and paint effects in clients' homes.
The acquisition of an etching press led to several years of practice as a printmaker. However, a traumatic event in my life and the subsequent longing to paint in order to cope with emotional turmoil led to me taking the Art2Life training with Nicholas Wilton from California in 2016. From that moment, painting became my life. Nowadays, the combination of self-expression through my present work and my past profession as an art therapist has become a personal tool for healing.
For the third year now, I have taken part in an artist's residency in Mexico. This residency has led to a body of colourful new work inspired by the experience of spending time in such a vibrant environment, amongst inspiring and wonderful people.
RECENT EXHIBITIONS
2024 THE AKA CONTEMPORARY Christmas exhibition, Cambridge
2024 ARTWORKS, Blackthorpe Barn, Bury-St-Edmunds
2024 OPEN STUDIOS EXHIBITION Grundisburgh
2024 THE IPSWICH ART SOCIETY, Ipswich
2024 THE MINDS EYE 4, Artspace, Woodbridge
2023 ARTWORKS Blackthorpe Barn, Bury-St-Edmunds
2023 IPSWICH ART SOCIETY. Ipswich, and Woodbridge
2023 "THE MINDS EYE 3. Artspace, Woodbridge
2022"INSIGHTS" Artspace, Woodbridge
2022 IPSWICH ART SOCIETY, Ipswich Art Gallery
2022 ARTWORKS ANNUAL EXHIBITION Blackthorpe Barn, Bury-St-Edmunds
2021 "THE MINDS EYE" Artspace, Woodbridge.
2021 ARTWORKS Blackthorpe Barn
2020 "BORDERS." Ipswich & Colchester art societies. Firstsite. Colchester
2020 "FACING FEAR/ FEELING JOY. Artspace Woodbridge
2020 "EXHIBITION OF COLOUR." Artspace, Woodbridge
2019 "12+ ARTS." Grundisburgh,
2019 "ARTWORKS AT THE FESTIVAL." Bury St Edmunds
2019 "IPSWICH ART SOCIETY OPEN. " Ipswich
2019 "MEMORIES" Artspace, Woodbridge
2019 "HOME" Cambridge refugee action group. Cambridge
2019 "ARTWORKS 20 th exhibition. Blackthorpe Barn
2018 "SECRETS & WHISPERS" Artspace, Woodbridge
2018 "IPSWICH ART SOCIETY OPEN" Ipswich
2018 "SERMO" Ipswich
2018 “MEDITATIONS” Aldeburgh
2018 "ARTWORKS" Blackthorpe Barn
2017 "ARTWORKS" Blackthorpe Barn
2017 "FROM THE MODEL" Rendlesham
2016 "EXPLOSION OF THE PALETTE" Wivenhoe
2016 “LES ARTISTES DE MARIE” Marie, France
2016 "ARTWORKS" Blackthorpe Barn
2016 "ALTERED SPACES" Aldeburgh
