MY STORY
I have been making art for as long as I can remember but after graduating with a degree in chemistry I followed a path which lead to designing software for pharmaceutical research scientists. I enjoyed my job, but the urge to pursue my own creativity continued to grow…
My biggest step was to leave this successful career to embark on a fine art degree in my mid-thirties. It soon became apparent that the journey wasn’t going to be plain sailing, and during my degree course I did a lot of crazy commuting between Gothenburg and Loughborough! The next decade was tough, but I continued to develop my art practice alongside part-time employment, exhibiting as much as possible and making valuable connections with other artists.
Now a full-time artist, I work from my home studio and teach printmaking workshops across the region. It has taken a long time to get to this point but I truly appreciate the lifestyle I have chosen, and am grateful for those who encourage and support me.
MY PROCESS
I am particularly interested in how painting and printmaking can inform one another, and how these two techniques can be used together.
I often begin by responding to a subject through printmaking, identifying relevant shapes, negative spaces, colours or lines. Gradually ideas for a composition develop. Selecting from these printed resources I layer papers onto a solid support, integrating painted passages as required. The finished work is sealed and varnished, resulting in a contemporary piece that does not require glazing.
For a recent exhibition looking at Leicester’s industrial heritage I took inspiration from the vintage typewriters once made in the city.
Exhibitions
2025 Leicester Open
2024 Northants and Rutland Open Studios
2024 Leicester: City of Machines & People, Leicester Print Workshop, Leicester
2024 Tarpey Gallery Open, Castle Donnington, Derbyshire
2024 Derby Print Open, Green Door Printmaking Studio, Derby
2023 Cornucopia, Cupola Contemporary Art, Sheffield
2023 LSA Annual Exhibition, Loughborough
2023 Rutland Open Studios
2023 '4-ways', Wells Maltings, Norfolk
2023 'Kindred', Stamford Arts Centre, Lincolnshire
2022 ‘Breast Cancer & Me’, University of Nottingham
2022 Tarpey Gallery Open, Castle Donnington, Derbyshire
2022 The Old Lock Up Gallery Open, Derbyshire
2021 Rutland Open Studios
2019 Open 30, Leicester
2019 Printfest, Ulverston (In Dialog)
2018 'Olympics and Culture -Tracings, Projections and Intersections', Tokyo (In Dialog)
2017 Printfest, Ulverston (In Dialog)
2017 Sheffield Print Fair, Sheffield (In Dialog)
2016 Melbourne Arts Festival, Derbyshire (In Dialog)
2016 'Prescriptions', Beaney House of Art & Knowledge, Canterbury
2015 'Take One Book', Loughborough University and Elizabeth College, Guernsey
2014 Wirksworth Arts Festival
2014 Melbourne Arts Festival, Derbyshire
2014 Midlands Open, Tarpey Gallery, Castle Donnington
2014 'The Web of Water', Artcore, East Midlands
2014 Solo exhibition, Deda, Derby
2013 Salon 5, The Old Lockup Gallery, Derbyshire
2009 Solo exhibition, Mitt i Centrum, Gothenburg
2009 Printmaking exhibition, Valand School of Fine Arts, Gothenburg