My SOLO EXHIBTION in the Wilson Gallery at OXMARKET CONTEMPORARY
St Andrews Court, Off East Street, Chichester, West Sussex PO19 1YH
finishes on Sunday 24 November at 4pm.

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'm going back this February to develop my charcoal skills.

My Studio Group Painting and Drawing class for adults at Lavant on Thursdays mornings goes from strength to strength and I am now  oversubscribed. The Green Room where we meet just can't hold more than 20 people.

2025 is already looking busy, with marmalade making consuming January, seed sowing from February, singing in WEMFEST's Surtierra project with performances in Chichester, Portsmouth and Covent Garden.

April 26 I'll be selling my home grown plants and marmalade in aid of Brain Tumour Research and demonstrating how to prune and repot orchids.
May 17/18 and 24/25/26 10.30am to 5pm I'll be opening my studio for Chichester Art Trail.

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 one 2 day courses 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 '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 at the Oxmarket Contemporary November  2024

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

Charity Fundraising: Current total for Brain Tumour Research - reached £6000 by December 2024.

Bridgeman Images licence several of my paintings for reproduction.

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