I started my career by studying Interior design at Teesside and Leicester Polytechnics in the early 1980s. I worked professionally as an interior designer, primarily for the leisure industry at first and later for a more domestic market for the next 25 years, for design companies and as a freelance designer.
At the end of the 90s I returned to college to study Fine Art. First in Cheltenham at Gloucestershire College of Higher Education followed by an MA based in Barcelona and Winchester with Winchester School of Art.
Since completing my degree I have continued to make work. In the early and mid 2000s this was primarily paintings. I had a studio at Spike Island in Bristol and then in Barcelona where I lived for 8 years.
Since returning to England and moving to Bournemouth my work has turned to printmaking, and I have been exploring relief printing in various forms, but especially those that don't require a press.
While being furloughed I had an amazing gift of time to continue printmaking and to explore once again work in three dimensions by developing a series of papier-mache bowls based around Archimedean solids. These continue a journey I have been on for many years looking at geometry and pattern, order and chaos.