Bucks New University, High Wycombe 2006 - 2010 M.A - printmaking & Illustration

Nottingham Trent University 1993 – 1995 B.A Hons - Contemporary Arts 2:1

De Montfort University, Leicester 1992-93 Diploma - Theatre, Visual Arts and Media

I have been a practising artist for 15 years. I have continually shown in galleries, worked on commissions and completed many residencies.
I have experience of working in the arts, the design and the film industry. I also trained as a patinator at bronze foundry.
For 10 years I have curated, managed and invigilated Artspace for Barn Galleries – the largest of The Oxfordshire Artweeks events. www.barngalleries.com
I work on many collaborative projects with Bridget Fraser FRSA from illustrating childrens books to filming documentary archival films.
Much of my work uses poetry, film, photography and sound. I will always draw, print, write songs, poetry and make sculpture. I do not see a separation between the mediums. Whatever suits the work must be used.
2003/06 I founded a sculpture foundation in Zimbabwe, to aid the sculptors in Zimbabwe. www.Zimbas.com Zimbabwean Art and Sculpture.
2000/02 I worked with the late Kenneth Armitage, producing his large scale sculptures. (Skills learnt in the film industry and foundries) I filmed Kenneth Armitage during this time and have been building a film archive of artists, curators and collectors ever since. Interviewees include: the late Donald Hamilton Fraser, Tom Hammick, Liz Butterworth, Robert Hiscox, Peter Millican and Rungwe Kingdom.
I undertook an M.A in printmaking in 2006 to expand my skills to enhance my own artwork and better equip me with techniques to explore my own work and for collaborative projects. This has taken a little longer than expected as I had a daughter in 2008.
I have recently taken on a new studio space in High Wycombe to enable to me concentrate fully on my own artistic practice again.