I work with materials and mass production as a way of exploring values and how we use our resources.  I work through the materials using their inherent properties and related processes and develop ideas and associations as the work progresses. The main concerns in my work are spirituality and environmental issues and the key characteristics of my work are ethereal and of landscape.  The main influences for my work come from everyday life and the need to give deeper meaning to what we do.

I have made a commitment to developing the arts scene in Harrow and have contributed to many arts initiatives including setting up new art groups and organizing exhibitions.  I am also involved with art and education projects and have worked with many organizations to create community public artworks throughout London.  I believe in promoting empowerment through art practice and am convinced of the benefits of both advocacy and continuing education by this means.

RBS Award Winner 2000 and Associate Member of the Royal Society of British Sculptors.

ARTSPACE Founder, Chairperson and Senior Partner for community arts organization 2003/06.

HCA Founder Member and Acting Chair for Harrow Contemporary Artists, formerly Artbase, a group promoting Harrow artists with a significant role in establishing this group 2001/02.

ASP Trustee to Art and Sacred Places, a group promoting contemporary art in sacred places 1999/01.

Harrow Education Services - Workshop leader linked to Harrow College working at Bedford House Day Centre developing art and drama activities for people with severe disability and autism leading to 18m (60ft) collage frieze and other large scale works at the centre and off site, 2002- 06 ongoing. Workshop leader for Mencap POVA Play scenery 2006 and 2 Mencap Monoprint Summer Schools 2004/05, Paint, Decorate and Stencil Project 2006, Arts Festival Clay Project, Arts Festival School Mural Project, Kenton Park Residency Flying with Art Project, see residencies and Artbug Childrens Project, 2000.

Harrow Education Services - Harrow adjudicator for the Apthorpe Art Prize 2000, 2002, Steering Group Member for EYPD European Year of People with Disabilities Harrow Events 2003, participating artist in first Harrow Open Studios, 2002, 2003, Committee Member for inaugural Artists Forum Exhibition 2004 and Committee Member for first Arts Tutor Forum Exhibition 2005, 2006.

Artspace - Set up and managed Artspace, a not-for-profit organization promoting access to art in Harrow. Planned and fundraised £55K for the Disability Works Project 2002/03 involving working with people with learning disability to create a book showing other people how to monoprint. The group worked with different monoprint methods and photography to create step by step visual instructions and I contributed the text. The book was published and launched together with an exhibition of prints, a video presentation of the project and workshops for the public at the Hands On Exhibition 2003. Other Artspace projects include the Nightclub Banner Project 2004, see commissions, EYPD printmaking day 2003, International Womens Day printmaking 2003, West Harrow Park Magic Weaving 2002 and Weldon School Weaving 2002.

Action Space – Voltaire Studio Project - working with adults with learning disability in an artists studio set-up, promoting individuals own artistic development using a wide range of art forms leading to 3 Arts Festival exhibitions and an Open Studios, Voltaire Studios, 2001 and 2005, Ealing Research & Consultation Project – Consultation with community groups and taster workshops at day centres, Greenford Community Hall and the Small Mansions Arts Centre to identify needs to set up an art studio for people with learning disability in Ealing, 2003/04. The Epic Trust Project - working with adults with severe & profound learning disability in 2 residential homes leading to artworks framed to decorate homes and displays in local pub, dentist and library as well as taking people off site to work in a community studio, Walthamstow, London, E17, 2001/03. The Ark Project - making creative bird feeders for Battersea Park Zoo, see commissions 2001/02. Also - introducing art to day centres across London.

Action Space Arts Initiative in Macedonia - key role developing arts projects for main learning disabilities institutions in Demir Kapja, Macedonia, involving drawing and painting, over 60s stencil and story telling, drama, working with wood, environmental art and open art workshops, culminating in an exhibition of art works in the village bank, post office, school and the institutions themselves. Role also included introducing advocacy groups, liaison with other charitable organizations and making contacts with the Sullian Academy, the National Art School at Skopje with a view to developing a programme from existing arts structures 1999.

Action Space - the Great Outdoors Project - arts work training for people with learning disability, 16-18 yrs to develop their own public art project involving research, project design, training to work with other groups and making public artworks at Haywards Playground, London, WC2, 2000. Prior to this, working with the same group to build a sculptural fence at Camley Street Natural Park 1998/99 see commissions.

Chisenhale Gallery Education Projects - leading the Path Exhibition workshops involving drawing and video for 6 local schools and supporting workshops for World Corners Exhibition making string installations and New Barbarians Exhibition using plaster casting. Also involved with working with local schools to produce large Textile Map and 3D Paper Model of Susan Lawrence Infants School 1998/99.

Mencap daycare and clubs - a leading role in developing art projects for people with learning disabilities involving drama, drawing and painting, printmaking, sculpture and expressive craft, leading to Garden Mural Project - 18m (60ft) mural, logo designs and several local exhibitions, Harrow Activity Centre, 1997/98.

Adult education – Seminars, single workshops or short courses involving life drawing, monoprinting, sculpture, plaster casting, presentations and tutorials at Harrow College 1997/98, West Thames College 1998, Jamestown Centre 1999, Hillcroft College 2000/01, Harrow Arts Centre 2003, the Royal Society of British Sculptors 2005, the Harrow Arts Tutor Forum 2006 and The Art Academy 2006.

Prior to practicing as an artist I set up a decorating business having developed many practical skills. I also have a longstanding interest in learning and cognition processes that includes teaching my daughter to read at the age of 15 months.