It all comes down to memory: precious and treasured, elusive, lost, inaccurate yet true. I try to capture the essence of an experience, a fugitive and unrepeatable moment that was intensely important.
How may the essence, the feeling of a particular moment be expressed and how might it change over time? In an age of instant imagery, my work aims to capture that movement combined with stillness and to reflect an ongoing process of meditation and reflection.
My current tools are brush combined with the use of gesso, ink, paint and gilding in a process that develops over time. As in life, chance and working on the edge of control play their part. Perfection is unattainable and undesired.
Artwork ranges in size from 15 x 10cm upwards with all dimensions given on the Gallery page. I regularly update images so please have a look around.
Art and design have always been part of my life. I studied mixed media textiles at Loughborough University, then had a design career in both luxury fashion and interiors.
From 2001 to 2008, I moved to India with work taking me to China and Vietnam for extended periods of time. The intensity of life in these countries affected me deeply and this was a reflective time for me personally and artistically.
Now based in London, my work is drawn on the energy and memory of gesture, recording the intangible.
Selected Group Exhibitions
2020
The Affordable Art Fair, London The V-Art Show (online April, May & June)
2019
The Other Art Fair Brooklyn, New York
Elevate, London
New Horizons, London
2018
The Other Art Fair Brooklyn, New York
From ArtCan With Love, London
44 Hallam Street, London
The Other Art Fair, Victoria House, London
Square Peg. Circle Gallery, Sheffield
2017
What is The Point? Camden Image Gallery, London
The Other Art Fair, Bristol
44 Hallam Street, London
Appearances of…A&D Gallery, London
The Other Art Fair – Victoria House, London
2016
The Other Art Fair – Truman Brewery, London
Twitter Art Exhibit, Trygve Lie Gallery – New York
Group show – Luminaire Arts, London
2015
ThirtyforThirty – National Theatre, London
2014
The London Collective – Luminaire Arts, London
Fiumano Fine Art Summer Exhibition, London
Affordable Art Fair Battersea, London
Fiumano Fine Art Spring Exhibition, London
1980s – 90s
1991 Prisma Artists – Imperial College, London; Take Five – Star Gallery, Lewes, East Sussex
1989 Women’s Eye – Highgate, London; Greenwich show – London
1988 Bodies – Old Bull Arts Centre – Barnet, London; London Contemporary Art – Lots Road, London; Arthouse Cash & Carry – Battersea, London
1986 Blowing in the Wind – Aspects Gallery, Whitfield St. London; Off The wall – Alfred East Gallery, Kettering
1985 Rufford Crafts Centre, Rufford Country Park, Nottinghamshire; Aspects Gallery, Whitfield St, London; Cirencester Workshops, Gloucestershire
1984 Textile Art – Atlantic Road Gallery, Brixton, London
1983 Textile work from Loughborough College of Art & Design – Qantas Gallery, Piccadilly, London; Women & Textiles: their lives and their work – Battersea Arts Centre, London
Selected Solo Exhibitions
1987 Plastics – East Midland Arts touring show
1986 Male Bodybuilders – Nottingham; Bodybuilders – Heaven Nightclub, London
Work in private collections in the UK, France, USA, South America and India.
Public commissions
2018: Series of 11 large paintings for a residential development in London Dock, Wapping, London
1989 Banner for Nottingham City Festival
1985 Hanging for Southampton City Hospital
1982 Installation for Monarch Knitting Machinery Ltd. Beaumont Leys, Nottingham
Publications
2015 ThirtyforThirty – Buro4 anniversary publication
1991 The Art & Craft of Appliqué – Juliet Bawden
Education
1982 BA Honours degree (First) in Mixed Media Textiles from Loughborough College of Art & Design (now Loughborough University).
Associations
I am actively involved in ArtCan, which supports and enables artists to sustain their practice.
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