Biography

Education:

BA (hons) Fine Art painting, St Martins School of Art London

MA Fine Art, Cardiff Metropolitan University

PG Diploma Art Therapy, Hertfordshire University

Diploma Music, Keele University

MA Art Psychotherapy research, Leeds Metropolitan University

Employment Present: full time artist.

Curatorial: Curator "Why do we celebrate women's art?" Wisbech gallery, Cambridgeshire 2024

Solo shows:

2023 Rugby art gallery and museum, Rugby, Warwickshire

2023 Gallery at St Martins, Lincoln

2023 Rooftop Arts Centre, Corby, Northamptonshire

2024 Welney Wetland centre, Norfolk

2024 Willoughby Memorial Trust Gallery, Lincolnshire

Group exhibitions and residencies:

1986 "BA fine art show" St Martins school of art, London

1987 "Group show" Tricycle theatre Camden, London

1987 "Group show, seven-year itch”, Gallery 7, Covent Garden, London

1989 "Group show MA fine art" Howard gardens Gallery, Cardiff.

1989 "All Women’s show", Chapter arts centre, Cardiff

1989 Artist in residence, Canton library, South Glamorgan and exhibition with South east Wales arts association at St. David’s Hall Cardiff, Wales.

1991/2 "Stafford open art show", Stafford library.

2014 "Open art show", Courtyard arts centre, Hertford

2014,15 and 18 Open art show, Ayot St Lawrence, Hertfordshire

2015 "Open art show", Kimpton arts festival, Hertfordshire

2016/17 "Open studios Exhibition", Hertfordshire arts forum, The New Maynard Gallery, Welwyn Garden City.

2016 "Open art show" Upstairs gallery, Berkhamstead, Hertfordshire.

2019 "Falmouth summer school art exhibition", Falmouth school of art, Cornwall

2019 "Friends of courtyard art gallery" exhibition, Hertford, Hertfordshire.

2020 “Fins, Fur and Feathers” J.Mane Gallery, (online)

2020 “SEAW selected”. Society of East Anglian watercolourists, (online)

2021 "Alone, Together" Shannon Skye Robinson (curator online)

2021 "Over Thinker" Tymelapse studios collective, open (online)

2021 "Mental health art exhibition" Doncaster art fair, finalist. (online)

2021 "Wing art prize" finalist.

2021 "Paint out"", Norwich Country Park,  Norfolk

2021 "Summer show" The Yare Gallery, Great Yarmouth

2021 "Summer show" The Wayland Dragonfly Gallery, Norfolk

2021 "Nature" Tebbs contemporary art, (online)

2021 "The Art of music", Lancaster, in collaboration with Lancaster music festival

2021 "Love art" Leicester open group exhibition

2021 "Affordable art fair" The Storey, Lancaster

2022  "Cultural arts open" Artrepreneur winner (hon mention)

2022 "Awash 22" Handa Gallery, Wells Maltings, Norfolk, Society of East Anglian watercolourists.

2022 "Janus revisited" Mixed group exhibition, Cupola contemporary gallery, Sheffield.

2022 "Benevolence" ArtFuse, London (online) group art exhibition, prize winner

2022  "Spring exhibition" Society of East Anglian watercolourists, Clare, Suffolk.

2022 "Art trail", Birdbox gallery, Cambridge.

2022/23  "Summer show" The Carre Gallery, Sleaford.

2022  "Summer show"The Rooftop arts centre, Corby.

2023/24 "Summer open" Wisbech art gallery, Wisbech, Cambridgeshire

2023 "Emerge" Undercroft gallery, Norwich, Norfolk.

2024 Curator and exhibitiong artist, Group show "Why do we celebrate women's art? Wisbech gallery, Cambridgeshire.

2025 "Draw 25" group show Wisbech art gallery, Cambridgeshire

2025 "East 25", The Bank art centre summer exhibition of east anglian artists. Eye, Suffolk.

2025 "Summer Contemporary", Pears Britten Arts, Maltings arts centre, Suffolk

2025 "Open art show", Milestone gallery, New Mills, Derbyshire

2026 "Peoples Exhibition", Leicester Museums and art galleries

Membership of groups and societies

Derbyshire arts

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