I have ADD so I work intensively on one project and then move to something completely different so my practice includes painting, photography and digitally manipulated photographs (but no AI). My ideas flow back and forth between the different media so compositional rules in photography inform the paintings and the scribble and abstraction from the paintings inform the digitally manipulated photographs. My current interest is Black and White photography because it makes the viewer focus on the light rather than get distracted with the colour.
Inspirations: Lewis Noble, David Hockney, John Piper, Frank Auerbach, Ivon Hitchens, David Tress and Jackson Pollock.
EXHIBITIONS (for those underlined the work was selected by an independent panel of judges)
6/2026 ‘ArtSpace Now’ – Stamford Arts Centre
2026 LSA annual exhibition, New Walk Museum, Leicester
2026 Leicester Open, New Walk, Leicester
10/2025 ‘Half Remembered’ ArtSpace exhibition at Charnwood Museum
8/2024 felt fungi ‘Up to the Beacon’ Sculpture Trail
8/2024 ‘Edges and Transitions’ Stamford Arts Centre
3/2024 ‘Flow’ Sock Gallery, Loughborough
Summer 2023 ‘Rhythm and Movement’ Deda, Derby
Summer 2023 fabric flowers, single use plastic installation, ’Up to the Beacon’ Sculpture trail
Divorce, pandemic, moving house
2019 Felt flowers, recycled laptop and phone, old table Outwards sculpture trail
May2018: rope sculpture in Artspace’s exhibition ‘Into the Outwoods’, Outwoods
April-June: ceramics in Artspace’s ‘Layers and Edges’, Charnwood Museum, Loughborough
June 2017: Odyssey to Stamford, Stamford
November 2017: LSA annual exhibition, New Walk Gallery, Leicester
May-August 2016: Artspace’s ‘Reflection, Charnwood Museum, Loughborough
November 2016: LSA annual exhibition, New Walk Gallery, Leicester
May 2015: Artspace’s Beyond Words, Sock Gallery, Loughborough
May 2015: Rutland Open, Oakham
May 2015: Artspace at The Curve, Leicester
July-Sept 2013: Artspace’s ‘Down to Earth’, Charnwood Museum, Loughborough
May-June 2012: Artspace’s ‘Gold’, Sock Gallery, Loughborough Town Hall
April 2012: Artspace’s ‘Metamorphosis’, The Wall, New Walk Gallery, Leicester
December 2011: Open 23 at the New Walk Gallery, Leicester
December 2011: Derby Open
April-June 2011: Artspace’s ‘Birdsong’, Charnwood Museum, Loughborough
November 2010: Open 22 at the New Walk Gallery, Leicester
October 2010: Artspace’s ‘On the Edge’, the Mark Parker Gallery, Shepshed
September 2010: London Lives finalist, Bankside Gallery, London http://www.guardian.co.uk/london-lives/shortlist
Several dates 2010: Nottingham Society of Artists exhibitions.
May 2010: Artspace’s ‘Passions and Influences’, Nottingham Society of Artists
September 2009: Artspace’s ‘Passions and Influences’, Eltham College, London
March 2009: ‘Make Space for Artspace’ at Nottingham Society of Artists
December 2008: Derby Open
December 2008: Catmose Open
June 2008: ‘Artspace the Bigger Picture’, Charnwood Museum, Loughborough.
Easter 2008: ‘Artspace in Miniature’, Charnwood Museum
October 2007: Nottingham Open, Angel Row Gallery
October 2007: Artspace’s ‘New Horizons’, James France building, Loughborough University
Easter 2007: Artspace’s ‘2 by 2’, Charnwood Museum
December 2006: Artspace’s exhibition at the City Gallery Leicester
November 2006: Postcard exhibition at the Surface Gallery, Nottingham
November 2006: Leicester City Gallery Open
October 2006: Nottingham Castle Open in which I won the Berryman prize.
July 2006: Artspace’s ‘On Reflection’, Generator gallery, Loughborough University
December 2005: Artspace’s exhibition at the City Gallery Leicester.
December 2005: Nottingham Castle Open
October 2005: Artspace’s exhibition in Venice, concurrent with the Biennale.
Autumn 2005: ‘Hidden Treasures’, the Depot Leicester, & Hinkley Library.
September 2005: ‘Artspace at the Mill’ in Ashby
Spring 2005: Artspace’s ‘Open Space’, the Charnwood Museum.
February 2005: ‘Feral’ at the Picture House, Leicester
Christmas 2004: Leicester City Gallery’s sixteenth open
July 2004: Artspace’s ‘I Spy’, Generator Gallery, Loughborough University
Christmas 2003: Leicester City Gallery’s fifteenth open
(Artspace is a group of mainly graduate artists who live in the Loughborough area.)
EDUCATION
1998 Btech Diploma in Foundation Studies in Art and Design, Loughborough College of Art and Design
1985 PhD Photographic Science, Polytechnic of Central London
1979 BA(hons) Chemistry, Somerville College, Oxford University