About
Throughout my adult life I have sought to go willingly into the unknown. This is an ongoing recognition that embracing my own vulnerabilities allows me to fully release my spirit, and in turn, my imagination.
I don’t know where my life, or my work, will take me. Like my paintings sometimes things work out and sometimes they don’t. Sometimes relationships are in conflict and yet manage to hang together. Many questions have no final answer. This is the process: to somehow manage to be in the deep end of what is not being seen. Isn’t this where we experience the creative chaos necessary to allow ourselves to see what is possible? Isn't this how we grow? Isn't this how we awaken?
My job as an artist is ultimately to listen. I then respond. I play. I express, hide, repress, awaken, retreat, and express, again. Each mark, each gesture, is intuitive - a moment of experimentation that begets another. Each artwork is the unknown communicating itself into being.
BIO
I'm an American/British visual artist whose professional creative career began in the U.S. (Boston) in the 1990’s as a sole proprietor textile artist. For many years I designed and created large custom installations and bespoke homeware and fashion accessories for local shops and interior decorators. I then moved to the North of England in 2009 and my more traditional textile practice transitioned into creating multi-faceted mixed media works. This shift was partly inspired by several lengthy visits, and a six-month living period in Arctic Norway (Tromsø). In 2017 after taking a course at the Glasgow School of Art I began painting. I now live and work in the countryside north of Glasgow.
CV
B. 1964 USA
EDUCATION
1999 Certificate in Interior Design, Inchbald School of Design, London, UK
1995 M.Ed, Creative Arts in Learning, Lesley University, Cambridge, USA
1986 B.F.A. Theatre Studies, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, USA
ADDITIONAL STUDIES
2017 Explorations in Abstraction, Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow UK
2008 Fashion as Art, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, USA
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2025 Irving Open Irving Gallery, Oxford
2024 Lido Open Lido Stores, Margate
2024 Solo Show, iota, Glasgow
2024 Visual Arts Scotland, Centenary Exhibition, Edinburgh
2023 RA Summer Exhibition, London
2022 Reverb, Visual Arts Scotland Annual Exhibition, Edinburgh
PUBLICATIONS
Create Magazine,Women's Issue 2020 (web version), Honourable mention
Thalia Magazine, The Fragment Issue, September 2019
Art North ISSUE 2 | SUMMER 2019 Ripped and Torn