About me
Training:
- Sculpture and fine art: Gloucestershire college of Art
- Art teaching: Reading University
- Special needs teaching: City Lit.
Experience:
- Art teaching in comprehensive schools: 6 years
- Adult Institute teaching: 10 years
- Sculpture workshops: Tate Gallery and various schools, colleges and festivals
- Private homes: from 1985
- Exhibitions: every 3 or 4 years from 1983
Private work undertaken includes:
- Portraits;
- Murals;
- Paintings for companies, dentist surgeries and restaurants;
- Portrait heads in bronze and terracotta;
- Various commissions for paintings to match other decorations in homes and restaurants;
- Public sculptures in hospitals and the street;
- Undertaking work for the Living Paintings Trust for some years. The LPT is a charity which brings the joy of painting to the visually impaired by means of painting translated into relief models both for galleries and private individuals.
Hobbies:
- Painting and sculpture
- Making jewellery
- Indian classical dancing
- Performing in her partner's clown act as a tiger!
- Looking after her grandson!!!
- Not necessarily in that order!