CV

Education:

1985-87  MA Furniture Design, Royal College of Art .

1982-85   BA first class hons 3D Design (furniture), Middlesex Polytechnic.

Awards:

2016  European Healthcare Design Awards - Three Bridges  highly commended (with Willis Newson) for Interior Design & Art.

2015 - 2016  Crafts Council Injection programme participant.

2008  Reflect Forward Award and lottery grant for a solo exhibition at Craft Central, based on the Wellcome Archives.

2006  Arts Council grant for Inspirational Objects – nature as designer exhibition.

1990  Mc Coll’s Art Foundation Travel Bursary to go to India to study Dhokra metal casting.

1987  Second prize in ‘British Design in Japan’ Lamp section (Design Council). ‘Mirror lamp.’ 

1985  Princess of Wales Award-RCA (For the most distinguished female entrant of the year).

Selected Clients:

Yorkshire Sculpture Park | Borde Hill Gardens , Sussex|Rathfinny Vineyard, Sussex | West Dean House and Gardens | Macmillan Cancer Care | Ealing NHSMedium Secure Unit |Habitat Stores |Royal Doulton |A and C Black Publishers |Charlton Woods Primary Academy , Bristol|Brighton 3Ts Hospital| Golders Hill Park, London|Art for Life Somerset NHS

Selected Current Stockists (mostly coasters and porcelain brooches)

Atelier Brighton (Tutton and Young) |Bluecoat Gallery, Liverpool | Boo Vake , Perth, Scotland |FOUND, Worthing, West Sussex | SALT Architects, Beverley, Yorkshire |Twentytwentyone, London |Yorkshire Sculpture Park , Wakefield

Selected  Projects, Commissions and Collaborations:

2024 (ongoing) Commission to design illustrational murals for  Two Geriatric Mental Health Wards in Taunton, Somerset.

2024 (ongoing) Commission to create six vinyl murals for two entrances to Critical Care Wards at John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford. 

2022-present Overseeing a  green refurbishment of a derelict Listed Georgian Small holding to provide a live/workspace for myself and my husband. (including a lot of bespoke tiling.)

2022 Commission to create a tiled artwork in a garden at Taunton Hospital to celebrate  the  staff who worked at the hospital during the Covid pandemic.

2020-2021 Commission to create a design scheme for two mental health wards in Yeovil, Somerset.

2019 Commission for large exterior art work for Charlton Woods Primary Academy, Bristol.

2018 -2020 Commission for wallpapers for Brighton’s 3Ts hospital - one of 12 artists commissioned by Willis Newson

2017 Commission for large mural in the Glassroom Classroom in Golders Hill Park.

2016 Illustration for Spaces collection developed and used by Brighton Hospital Bereavement suite and Small Brook Care Home for early onset dementia.

2006- 2016 Collaborative work with Christiane Kersten - printed ceramics. Sold or exhibited in around 50 shops and galleries throughout the UK.

2015-2016 Developing new range of handmade ceramic – first shown at MADE London

2015 Project for Hillingdon Hospital Nuclear Medicine Department. Photographic collages in collaboration with Steve Speller

2014-2016 Project for Ealing Health Trust with David Morley Architects for Three Bridges Medium SecurePsychiatric Unit, including large vinyl wall pieces, wall poems, enamel panels and table-tops.

2012- 2013 Project for Macmillan Cancer Trust with ADP Architects including large vitreous enamel illustrative panels, bespoke splash backs, large Formica table, window manifestations, bespoke crockery and uniform scarves.

2012-2013 Project for Yorkshire Sculpture Park, designing a range of merchandise for the shop to be sold in conjunction with the Yinka Shonibare Exhibition.

2012 -2013 Project for Rathfinny Vineyard, East Sussex: developing branded products including ceramics, textiles  and stationary

2011 Designed 10 products for Habitat in conjunction with BBC 2’s ‘The Next Big Thing’.

2007 Commission from Royal Doulton to design contemporary vases and bowls for the prestige Flambé range in partnership with Christiane Kersten.

2005 ‘Inspirational Objects - A Visual Dictionary of Elegant Forms’ by Alison Milner, published by A&C Black (UK)  and Haupt (Switzerland) May 2005.

Selected Exhibitions and Shows:

2021/2022 ’The Spaces Between Buildings’ Solo show at The old School Gallery , Alnmouth, Northumberland (23rd October-21st January)

2021’Find, Make’ (nature table ceramics) Group show at gallery 57, Arundel, West Sussex. (October, November, December)

2021’Nature, Art and Architecture’ Solo Show at Salt Architects , Beverley Yorkshire. (July)

2021 'Decorative Minimalist' Solo show at Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Wakefield.(April, May, June)

2019 ‘Clay Makers’ - Group show at Kobi & Teal, Frome, Somerset.

2019 ’a silent space between’(nature table ceramics) - Group show at gallery 57, Arundel, West Sussex.

2015  MADE- London -new ceramic collection ‘Nature Table’ and MADE Brighton 2006-2014.

2015  Surface Design Show, London with AJ Wells.

2014  HOME - Olympia , London.-ceramics and domestic scale vitreous enamel.

2011 & 2012  TENT -Truman Brewery, London as part of London Design Festival.

2010 -2013  Touring Exhibition : More than Floral, Group show (curator and exhibitor) : Cooper Gallery, Barnsley 2010 |Bilston Craft Gallery 2011| Inverness Museum and three Highland Galleries in 2011 |   Waterside Arts Centre, Trafford 2012 | Nature in Art Gallery, Gloucester 2012 |  Oriel Gallery, Clotworthy Gardens, Antrim, Northern Ireland 2013 | 

2009  Votive Offerings, Fairy Godmothers & the Placebo Effect, Solo Show, Craft Central, London.

2008 100% design – with Design Nation. and with Formica Ltd 

2005 -2013  Touring Exhibition : Nature as Designer (curator and exhibitor) : Booth Museum, Brighton 2006| Barn Gallery, West Dean Gardens, Sussex 2007| Bonhoga Gallery, Shetland Islands 2009| Horniman Museum, London 2009|Rhyl Library and Art Gallery, Wales 2010 |Thelma Hulbert Gallery, Honiton, Devon 2010 |The Treasure House, Beverley, Yorkshire 2012| Pump House Gallery, Battersea Park, London  2013|

Teaching:

2022 Workshop in conjunction with tile mural design at Taunton Hospital

2020 Poetry Workshop with service users and staff at Yeovil Hospital.

2017 Crafts Council Hot House mentor (to Sophie Southgate - ceramicist)

2006- 2011 Touring Exhibition ‘Inspirational Objects - Nature as Designer’ - Family Workshops  and Gifted and Talented sessions.

2008-2020 West Dean College, Chichester  Short course tutor (and privately - one to one) - Teaching Creative Photoshop for Artists and Designers and Self Publishing (using BLURB software).

1999-2005 Northbrook College Worthing, (Part-time)  - Teaching BA 3D, HND 3D and Interiors, ND Design Crafts and Interior Design. 

1988-1993   London College of Furniture (Now Metroplitan University) (Part-time) - Teaching B-tec Interior Design.