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about me and my work
Having spent a number of years exploring different avenues of artistic endeavour, I have finally returned to my first love -
textiles.
Beginning with an Art Foundation year at Middlesex Polytechnic, followed by a journey south to Camberwell School of Art to complete a BA Hons in Ceramics in the early 1980s and an artist-in-residency at a North London senior school, I then went on to spend a number of years exhibiting mixed media collage drawings incorporating monotypes and handpainted fabrics for interiors and accessories in London.
However, my journey really started when we transplanted ourselves to Swanage in 2000 and I was given the opportunity of returning to
ceramics and spending several years building up a clay studio in Corfe Castle producing animal sculptures and handbuilt vessels to sell locally in Dorset.
I also helped set up the Boilerhouse Gallery there.
When I had to relinquish the studio in 2004 it gave me the impetus to concentrate again on fabric and textiles.
After attending an inspiring
feltmaking workshop
with Mary-Clare Buckle in Abbotsbury,
I began to use felt to draw on with natural fibres and threads, transferring the sketches I made of seabirds and fish on to natural handmade merino felt.
Now that I have moved to Ashmore, on Cranborne Chase, there are even more birds to choose from and Grace and Tom’s chickens are the new stars in the menagerie.
Along with all this there is always a patchwork quilt on the go or a knitting project for someone.
Recently I spent a day with Linda Miller learning machine embroidery, so my 30 year old Bernina has been resurrected after a few years of neglect and I’m exploring totally new techniques for me and re-interpreting my birds, fish and flowers in yet another discipline.
So many birds, with so many faces and so little time ...
If you would like to visit my studio, please contact me by
or
phone.
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exhibitions
2007
Russell-Cotes Summer 07 Joint Show: Russell-Cotes Art Gallery &
Museum, Bournemouth (10th June - 2nd September)
3rd Purbeck Art Week (25th May - 3rd June)
'Perspectives on Purbeck' show at the Old Malthouse School, Langton Matravers
2006
'Perspectives on Purbeck' show at the Old Malthouse School, Langton Matravers
Dorset Art Weeks
2005
Paint 2005 - ceramics
'Perspectives on Purbeck' show at the Old Malthouse School, Langton Matravers
2nd Purbeck Art Week
2004
Dorset Art Weeks - ceramics & textiles
Paint 2004 - ceramics
Quarr Gallery, Swanage - ceramics
Dorset Music Service: Childrens music and art week, Guggleton Barn,
Stalbridge
2003
Alpha House Gallery, Sherborne - ceramics
1st Purbeck Art Week
Rollington Barn, Corfe Castle
Art in the Garden, Poole
Ceramics Showcase at Wessex Fine Art, Wareham
2002
Wessex Fine Art, Wareham - ceramics
Slade Gallery, Gillingham - ceramics
Sherborne House - ceramics
Forest Arts, New Milton - ceramics
Quarr Gallery, Swanage - ceramics
Poole Central Library- community project for 'Knowmore' Festival
Dorset Art Week - ceramics, paintings & textiles
Eastington Barn, Worth Matravers - ceramics & paintings
Art in the Garden, Poole - ceramics
Old Malthouse School, Langton Matravers - ceramics
Upton House, Poole - ceramics
Pipeworks - a schools project with Dorset Music Services in Poole
Pipeworks 2 - a 6 day carnival project with Dorset Music Services
2001
Linda Blackman Gallery, London - textiles
Tithe Barn, Swanage - textiles
2000
Wessex Gallery, Wareham - textiles
1998
Radlett, Herts - paintings & ceramics
ACG, London - paintings
1996
The Nave, Uxbridge, solo show - paintings and textiles
1993
The Nave, Uxbridge, solo show - ceramics, paintings and textiles
1986
Parnham House graduate show - ceramics
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contact me
by telephone
landline: 01747 812608 (from outside the UK: +44-1747-812608)
mobile: 07811 102216
by email
by post
Meadow Cottage
Green Lane
Ashmore
SP5 5AQ
UK
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Meadow Cottage, Green Lane, Ashmore, SP5 5AQ, UK
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