I live and work in Lavenham Suffolk. After studying languages and working abroad as an interpreter for many years, I returned to England and studied painting under Cecil Collins at the Central School of Art in London. I paint mainly in watercolour and mixed media, working from drawings and sketches made on my travels.
As a printmaker, I make relief prints, monoprints and screen prints, often combining all three in experimental ways.
Since 1994, I have been working with glass, while still painting and printmaking. I have completed many stained glass commissions including two windows for the Royal London Hospital, a window for the foyer for the Headgate Theatre in Colchester and a memorial window for Peldon Church, Essex.
I now mainly make colourful, textured, free-standing glass pieces, using fusing and slumping techniques.
My work is mainly imaginative, inspired by the rich colours and shapes of landscape and nature.
1996-97 Caroline Swash Fellowship for 1 year’s research study in
stained glass at Central St Martins, London
1994-96 2-year Post Graduate Diploma in Stained Glass, Central St Martins,
1977-80 BA Honours degree in Fine Art Painting, Central School of Art, London
