This website shows most of the work that I have produced over the past 13 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 packed off weekly to the Kensington museums on Sunday afternoons and I was always fascinated by portraits that seemed to bring people to life. This inspired a lifelong interest in portraiture, which 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 secondary education. During my twenties and thirties whilst bringing up my five children, I satisfied my creative energies by attending lots of art classes, doing macramé, pottery, wood carving and gardening.

In my late thirties I finally went back into education and gained a teaching degree in ‘Design and Technology’. This varied course enabled me to gain a variety of skills, for example working with resistant materials and gaining a knowledge of technical drawing skills. Over the next thirteen years I worked in schools and a sixth form college 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 course 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 working.

In my late fifties I began a three year MA at Goldsmiths studying art psychotherapy which I completed last year. This was a very intensive course and art work that I continued to produce reflected these influences.

My current exhibition ‘Old Patterns’ which is to be shown in July 2008 has been an ongoing project for the past six years. This exhibition explores my early childhood growing up in the 1950s in Battersea.

The fifties designs from fabrics and wallpapers were reflective of the new consumer society and technological changes. I have used pastiche to express my personal experiences and also played on comic themes in the work.