Education
2003-6 BA (Hons) (First) Interior Textiles/Surface Design Somerset College of Arts and Technology
2001-3 Textiles 1 (Distance Learning) Open College of the Arts
1988 City and Guilds Certificate 730 (Teaching Adults)
1979 SRN (Charing Cross Hospital)
Awards (Selected)
2005 Winner Student Medal for Textiles
(National competition for 2nd year students)
Chartered Society of Designers
2009 People’s Choice Award, Thelma Hulbert Open, Honiton Devon
2009 People’s Choice Award, Focus on Great Britain, Art Works Galleries, Newcastle
2010 People’s Choice Award, Renewal and Regeneration, Thelma Hulbert Open, Honiton, Devon
2012 First Prize, Equality and Endeavour, Thelma Hulbert Open, Honiton
2016 People’s Choice Award, Thelma Hulbert Open, Honiton, Devon
Publications (Selected)
2009 The Guardian Feature on Devon Open Studios, 22.08.09
2009 The Guardian 10.11.09
2010 The Times; 04.06.10
2011 Exeter Living, Plastic Fantastic, 29.04.11
2011 Grout (Modern Mosaic) Winter 2011
2011 Exeter Living, Summer 2011
2011 House and Gardens, October
2014 Zeit Leo May/June 2014
2014 Blast Off, The School Magazine, New South Wales, Australia, Sept 2014
2014 Comic King, Malaysia, Sept 2014
2014 Daily Mail on line, Buttons, Beads and Barbie Doll Bits,18/9/14
2014 (Book) The Art of Deception, Brad Honeycutt, Imagine Publishing
2015 (Book) Sustainable Living: Green Design, Yang Liu and Jianing Yuan, Designer Books
2015 (Book) Mona Lisa Re-Imagined, Eric Maell
2015 Where Women Create, Nov 2015
2016 (book) Artful Business, Greg Stone
2016 RECLAIM magazine, Issue 5, August
2017 Devon Life, May
2017 (Book) Creative Extremes TOPP
2018 Ripley’s Believe it or Not – 2019 Annual
2021 Patchwork Professional, Germany, June
2021 Daphne’s Diary, Netherlands, June
Television
2009 BBC Spotlight South West, Sept.
2009 The Alan Titchmarsh Show, ITV1, Oct.
2010 Regional News ITV Jan
2013 Totally Rubbish, cbbc, Feb
2014 Deutsche Welle
Exhibitions (Selected)
2009 Focus on Great Britain, Artworks Galleries, Newcastle
2009 Thelma Hulbert Open, Honiton, Devon
2010 The Affordable Art Fair, Brussels
2010 Affordable Art Fair, Battersea Park, London
2010 Affordable Art Fair, New York
2010 Renewal and Regeneration, Thelma Hulbert Gallery, Honiton
2010 The Affordable Art Fair, Singapore
2010 Making It/Faking It, Orleans House Gallery, London
2011 The Affordable Art Fair, Battersea Park, London
2011 The Affordable Art Fair, New York
2011 The Affordable Art Fair, Hampstead Heath
2011 The Affordable Art Fair, Singapore
2012 The Affordable Art Fair, Battersea Park
2012 The Affordable Art Fair, Singapore
2012 Equality and Endeavour, Thelma Hulbert Open, Honiton, Devon
2012 The Affordable Art Fair, Hampstead Heath
2012 The Affordable Art Fair, Singapore
2012 The Art of Collecting, Tallinn Triennial, Estonia
2012 Noah’s Art, Orleans House Gallery, Twickenham
2012 The Affordable Art Fair, Battersea
2012 The Affordable Art Fair, Hong Kong
2013 Affordable Art Fair, Singapore
2014 Thelma Hulbert Open, Honiton, Devon
2015 Affordable Art Fair, Brussels
2015 Metamorphosis, Riverside Gallery, Richmond
2015 Affordable Art Fair, New York
2015 The Affordable Art Fair, Battersea
2016 The Affordable Art Fair NYC
2016 AGAIN, Kuwait
2016 Thelma Hulbert Open, Honiton, Devon
2016 Ffound, Woolff Gallery, London
2017 Finders Keepers, Will’s Art Warehouse, London
2017 Contemporary Classics, Words and Pictures Gallery, Teignmouth
2018 TRAIL @14, Devon Guild of Craftsmen, Bovey Tracey
2021 Fabulous Beasts, Powderham Castle, Devon