I'm inspired by the experience of landscape - from the vastness of a skyline, to the tangle of an ancient hedgerow, or the turquoise dazzle of New Zealand's coastline. After a wonderful seven years living in New Zealand I returned to the UK and Yorkshire to see our landscape with a fresh eye. My work explores this experience, but is not directly representational. It is just as much about my response to media as the work evolves, how paint suggests its own way forward.
I have also enjoyed teaching, both in Yorkshire and New Zealand.
Recently I've had work shown at the Harrogate Open, also the Fronteer Gallery Sheffield. I am a gallery artist at The Northern Lights Gallery Keswick.
Solo show April 23.
Education
Harrogate College Teacher Training – (City & Guilds)
Bradford College BA Hons. Art and Design (Painting & Ceramics)
Bristol University BSc Hons. Biochemistry
Other Training / Previous Career
Public Art - Selected artist - ‘Training for Real’ (Chrysalis Arts)
1984/92 Biotech. & Biomed. Research / Product Development / Mkting Management. World wide patent co-author (Pfizer), SMART award (Beam Tech)
Awards / Prizes
Society of Designer Crafts - Distinction for work exhibited at Mall Galleries
ArtTranspennine - Prize - Creative writing award
Public and Community Art
Yorkshire Dales Nat. Pk. - Public art work - 'Tracks in Time’ culminating in a performance by poet Ian McMillan. Featured in Landscape Design magazine
Lincoln City Council - Banners for Wharf (working with schools and architects)
Gaudi’s Wine Bar - glass & ceramic mosaic exterior frontage
Puccino’s Restaurants Interior design and mosaic fabrication
Primary school - exterior mosaic – glass, castings & tile
Teaching
Leeds Met. University Lecturer (Pt. time) Drawing & painting / Life drawing / Nat. Dip. Design Crafts / Ceramics & Kiln formed glass
Open College of the Arts
Lake House Arts Auckland
Some Selected Exhibitions
Hibiscus Bays Art Awards - Auckland
Lake House Arts - Auckland
Mercer Gallery, Harrogate ‘Harrogate Open’ 2020 & several previous
Solo Show - Dales National Park HQ ‘The Long View’
Zilla Bell Gallery, Thirsk
North Street Gallery, Leeds
Harding House Gallery, Lincoln ‘On a Clear Day.’ Solo show
Bianco Nero, Stokesley ‘Elements of the Land’
The Biscuit Factory, Newcastle
Chapel Gallery, Ormskirk - 'Northern Open'
Crescent Arts, Scarborough - Open
Leeds City Art Gallery - ‘Leeds Open’
Wakefield Gallery - ‘Yorkshire Open’
Quay Arts, Isle of White - ‘Waving Not Drowning’
Cartwright Hall, Bradford - ‘Bradford Open’
Mall Galleries, London - Soc. Designer Crafts Show
York City Art Gallery - ‘Out of The Kiln’
Derek Topp Gallery, (now Gallerytop), Derbyshire