This website shows most of the work that I have produced over the past 15 years. It includes work from five exhibitions, portraits that have been commissioned or painted for friends and 
family and other paintings that I have produced at various times.
My training as an artist has not taken a conventional route. As I child I loved drawing, mainly cartoons. My sisters and I were often packed off to the Kensington museums on Sunday afternoons and I was always fascinated by portraits - an interest I am still exploring.
Art was not a priority at the conventional grammar school I went to in Chelsea and unfortunately my interest and love of art was not nurtured during my teens. During my twenties and thirties whilst bringing up my five children, I satisfied my creative energies by attending lots of art classes and doing various crafts such as pottery and wood carving whilst working as a gardener.
In my late thirties I finally went back into education and gained a teaching degree in ‘Design and Technology’. This gave me a new set of skills, including technical drawing and over the next thirteen years I worked in schools teaching design and technology and also some art.
However, my desire to explore fine art in more depth eventually became a reality in my mid forties when I did a two year fine art course at the City Literary Institute. This enabled me to gain a variety of skills from excellent practising artists but more significantly gave me the tools to develop my own practice.
In my early fifties I had a few exhibitions which were moderately successful and which gave me the confidence to continue focussing on my art work.
In my late fifties I took on a three year MA at Goldsmiths studying art psychotherapy. This was a very intensive course and the art work that I produced during this time reflected these influences.
My latest exhibition ‘Old Patterns’ was shown in July 2008 and had been an ongoing project for a number of years. This exhibition took me ‘back to the beginning’, exploring my early childhood growing up in the 1950s in Battersea.
