I am an artist. I am interested in all things to do with books – as containers, as sequential images, as sculptural images that show movement, artists books, books as stories, blank books ready to be filled, and books involving different media. My work is very personal, much of it based on powerful memories, sometimes of my childhood, sometimes of times and/or activities meaningful to me. I have experimented with acrylic sheets, wire, and other mixed media. My first book was a clear acrylic box, open on one side, containing three flat clear sheets, each separated from the other sheets with small wooden blocks, and each containing pressed flower petals. My mother loved filling her house with flowers, as do I; and I had made the clear acrylic container of sheets of dried flower petals in her memory.

My practice with mixed media has led to interesting experiments with wire, as well as paper. for instance, in preparation for a recent wire sculpture, of a pirouetting ballerina, I drew several views on separate sheets of acetate, and used them to create a free hanging wire sculpture that, when spun, represents a ballerina’s spinning pirouette.

I also love communicating my love of art with other people through community and school art groups, working in collaboration with other artists and crafts people. I have worked in Beckton, North East London, for nearly twenty years, as a project leader for Art for Fun. This is a thriving drop-in art group located in one the the more deprived areas of Newham, that is inclusive of everyone. We are also on a social prescribing website for Newham and have strong links with NHS Mental health departments.

I have a BA in Art and Design, 1998, University Of Hertfordshire and an MA in fine and Applied Art, 2003, University of Hertfordshire.