My gouache Study of Daniel is featured in the Snapshot Exhibition of the Chichester Open Studios from 15th to 27th April
at the Oxmarket Contemporary Gallery Chichester.

Drawing in the garden aged 5. My parents were very busy commercial artists, hand drawing advertising for C&A, Kendals of Manchester, Hendersons of Liverpool and Jenners of Edinburgh.

Artwork for packaging with Peter Windett Associates for Crabtree & Evelyn and with the Hallmark Partnership for Boots. The strangest job at Dorling Kindersley involved painting every cut of meat for a cookery book.

In 2023 I was selected to take part in Sky Arts Portrait Artist of the Year. It was a very long day, of cameras and lights and lots of people. I particularly enjoyed talking with the judges and Dame Joan Bakewell.

Before moving to Chichester in 2019  I ran my own business selling both my own and bought in cards plus my painstakenly cleaned period Maps of London reproduced on cards and tea towels.  Mygorgeouscards.com thrives under new ownership

I've always been curious. Having to sit silently on the floor of my parents studio while they worked long hours, the only sounds from the wireless, I listened. Books with words held no interest but I drew, then never stopped. Though when I look back on my life, I'm surprised that nurturing rather than art has been at the core. The wonder and disbelief of germinating a seed only topped by watching a student suddenly realising 'how' and drawing with confidence.  Transforming lives could be my raison d'etre.

I trained as an art teacher at Goldsmiths' College 1972-76, loved teaching in schools and art college then developed a popular course for adults who'd not drawn since childhood. Designing gardens and illustrating followed. In 2019 I really enjoyed learning more about colour and painting at City Lit, with Benjamin Senior. Much encouraged I now paint full time in sunny Chichester. 

In February 2023 I was selected to take part in the SkyArts Portrait Artist of the Year competition, duly filmed in April and broadcast in November. It was an unforgettable experience.  

Last year I thoroughly enjoyed being taught by Miss Kate Boucher at West Dean College and I strongly recommend both Kate and her course.

My Studio Group Painting and Drawing class for adults at Lavant on Thursdays mornings goes from strength to strength.

2025 is busy, I've made 40 pots of marmalade, sown rather too many seeds in the greenhouse, and I'll be singing with WEMFEST and the Surtierra Project with performances in Chichester, Portsmouth and Covent Garden London! Hit the link to get tickets   Portsmouth Cathedral PO1 2HA Saturday 14 June 7pm and St Paul's Church Covent Garden on Friday 20 June 7pm .

May 17/18 and 24/25/26 10.30am to 5pm I'll be opening my studio for Chichester Art Trail.

Saturday June 7 I will be opening my garden from 10am and selling plants and marmalade in aid of Brain Tumour Research

Tuesday June 24 I'm running an afternoon workshop for Festival of Chichester on painting Clouds, held in the Studio at New Park Centre.

Throughout August I'll be running three 1 day courses and a 2 day course at Lavant Memorial Hall.

Hopefully there will be some time for painting!

Artwork for packaging and merchandise designed for: The National Trust, Waitrose, Sainsbury's, Boots, Crabtree & Evelyn, Pinneys of Scotland and Lotus Fish Food.  Illustration for publishers: Frances Lincoln, Marshall Cavendish, Mitchell Beazley, Kew, Dorling Kindersley, Pavilion, Readers Digest and RHS/Macmillan. Cover for Parklands Residents Association.

Exhibitions: 
Solo exhibition at the Century Gallery Henley on Thames 1983. 
Royal Horticultural Society 1984 & 1986 (Silver and Silver Gilt Medals) 1987. 
Mall Galleries  London 'Flowers & Gardens' 1984. 
Bradford City Art Gallery 'Food for Thought' 1987. 
Royall Fine Art Tunbridge Wells 1987. 
New York Interior Designers May 1987.
Christies Contemporary Art 'The British Garden' 1988. 
Solo exhibition at Blackheath Halls 1996. 
Solo exhibition at the Oxmarket Contemporary Chichester 2023.
Mixed exhibition entitled WAVE at Oxmarket January 2024.
Mixed exhibition entitled Art in Bloom at the Oxmarket May 2024.
Chichester Art Society annual exhibition at the Oxmarket June 2024
Solo exhibition in the Wilson Gallery  Oxmarket Contemporary November  2024
Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours 213th Exhibition  Mall Galleries London 26 March to 5 April 2025
Cathedral on Canvas exhibition at Oxmarket Contemporary Chichester 1 to 13 April 
Snapshot Exhibition for Chichester Open Studios Oxmarket Contemporary 15 to 27 April.

Work held in private collections in London, USA, South Africa, Australia, France and Italy. 

Charity Fundraising: Current total for Brain Tumour Research - passed £7000 in April 2025.

Bridgeman Images licence several of my paintings for reproduction.

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