EDUCATION
MA Drawing, Camberwell College of Art, London, 2008  Bachelor of Fine Art (BFA), University of Victoria, BC, Canada, 1985 

AWARDS/PRIZES 
2023: awarded Third Prize in FCA Fall Show for Wildcat Road View, oil pastel drawing.
October 2011- October 2012:  Artist in Residence, Dulwich Picture Gallery. The appointment was created to coincide with the exhibition Painting Canada:Tom Thomson and the Group of Seven. The brief was to “celebrate and promote Canadian art and culture, and to provide a continuing Canadian presence within the gallery beyond the Group of Seven exhibition, offering new perspectives on the permanent collection and future temporary exhibitions.” I led workshops on Canadian landscape to all age groups, referring to the Group of Seven as well as other Canadian landscape artists, past and present. I gave a presentation to gallery supporters, and attended gallery events throughout the year in the capacity of Artist in Residence, which included presenting a workshop on portraiture to HRH the Prince of Wales. I had a two-month solo exhibition of 40 works, and designed 2 consecutive sell-out Christmas cards for the gallery.

SOLO EXHIBITIONS 
2024: Oct 1 -20, This Must Be the Place, Gage Gallery, Cyanotypes and Ink Drawings, August 15 – Sept 15, Mile Zero Coffee, June 1 – 30, Wildflowers, exhibition of cyanotypes, Driftwood Brewery
2019: June 1 – 30, Recent work, Jane Newbery Gallery, London; Ink drawings and cyanotypes, April 1- 30, Copper Beech Cafe, London.
2016:April 4 – 30, Corner Gallery, Carshalton, London
2015: June 2 – 2, Contemplating Nature,Winchester Galleries,Victoria, BC, Canada
2014: June 26 – July 31, Field Studies, Romeo Jones, Dulwich Village, London; Feb 28 – March 16, Wandering off the trail, Hide Gallery Leathermarket, London
2013: Sept 27 – Oct 20 Verges, Jane Newbery Gallery, Dulwich Village, London; March 26 – May 19, Bright Land – West of the Rockies, South of the Thames, Dulwich Picture Gallery, London
2012: June 6 – July 6, Winter, Dulwich Woods, Romeo Jones, Dulwich Village, London; March 1 – 31; Water, Locale Restaurant, East Dulwich, London.
2011: Sept – Oct – Fields and Forests, Romeo Jones, Dulwich Village, London
2010: August 1 – 8 – Views from Across the Pond, jointly with Dawn Stofer, Hornby Island Hall, BC, Canada
2005: Local Scenes, Pullens Restaurant, London

GROUP EXHIBITIONS: 
2025: Sooke Fine Art Show, Art Gallery of Victoria Paint-In, This Is Us, Gage Gallery 2024: 22 in 24, Gage Gallery; Xchanges Studios annual members show; Classic Boat Festival Artists Showcase, Maritime Museum, Victoria; Sooke Fine Arts Show; Summer Exhibition, FCA Victoria Chapter; The Wonder of Water, Metchosin Art Pod.
2023: Small Works Show, Gage Gallery; X-pressions, Xchanges Studios annual members show; Fall Show, FCA Victoria Chapter; Water Exhibition, Federation Gallery, Vancouver; Expressions, Fortune Gallery, FCA Victoria Chapter. 
2022: Federation of Canadian Artists Summer Salon, Granville Island, Vancouver
2021: FCA Summer Salon , Granville Island, Vancouver 
2020/21: March 2020 – March 2021, Open 3, London Bridge Hotel.
2010 – 2019: Dulwich Festival Annual Artists’ Open House, London – at home, and at Dulwich Picture Gallery.  
2018: Urban Wild, The Department Store, Brixton, London
2016: October Salon, Eclectic Gallery,Victoria, BC
2009, 2014: Friends of Dulwich Picture Gallery Biannual Exhibition, London
2005 – 2013: Pastel Society Annual Exhibition, Mall Galleries, London
2011, 2012: Open Exhibition,Asylum, London
2009: Interludes, Bainbridge Studio Gallery, London
2008: Sketches, Jealous Gallery, Crouch End, London; Xhibit 08,The Arts Gallery, London; MA Degree show, Camberwell College of Art     

With South London Women Artists:
2020: Equinox, St Marylebone Crypt, London
2019: Still Life, Asylum Chapel, London
2018: Strong and Stable, Asylum Chapel, London, Pillow Talk, Tate Lates event,Tate Modern, London
2017: Blink, Market Peckham, London 
2016: Pillow Talk, Brixton East Gallery, London.
2015: What Is Urban? – curated and exhibited, Brixton East Gallery2014: FindersKeepersLosersWeepers, Conway Hall, London
2013: Swimming Against the Tide – curated and exhibited, Hide Gallery Leathermarket, London; Piecework, Espacio Gallery, London; I followed the river and came to the sea, Creekside Arts, London; I’m Inside, Ring the Bell, 47-49 Tanner St, London; Tender, Stephen Lawrence Centre, London.
2012: snap! Bankside Gallery, London. 
2010: SLWA at Bankside Gallery, London
2008 ,2009, 2010: SLWA at Dulwich Library, London. 

WORK EXPERIENCE  
ART EDUCATION:
2017 – ongoing:  Adult Drawing Groups. I run 2 weekly drawing clubs that meet in my London flat. I demonstrate and guide a group of adult learners on drawing projects, referencing classical and contemporary artists, employing a full range of drawing media. Since March 2020, I have been able to keep both groups going on Zoom, from Calgary, where I spent most of covid lockdown, and then from my house in Victoria.
2025: Drawing For All, University of Victoria, Continuing Education Department. A 6 week course introducing students to a variety of drawing media .

2024: Introduction to Oil Pastels, 2 day workshop for FCA Victoria chapter 2022: Outdoor and indoor drawing classes, Bell House 
2021: Sept – Dec: Outdoor and indoor drawing classes, Bell House, Dulwich, London. I ran the first in-person art classes offered at Bell House since lockdown.
2019 – 2020:  Life drawing and outdoor drawing classes, Bell House, Dulwich, London
2018 – 2019:  Artist in Residence, Hugh Myddleton and Winton Primary Schools, London. I delivered a different 6- week work-shop to each year group in both schools, with the additional aim of teaching the class teachers how to teach basic art skills – perspective, proportion, portraiture – to their classes.
2011 – 2019:  Teaching artist, Dulwich Picture Gallery, London. I led drawing workshops in a variety of media, using the permanent collection or temporary exhibitions as inspiration. I taught children of all abilities, aged 3 -18, in class sizes ranging from 12 – 30. I also gave workshops to
adults and senior citizens, at the Gallery’s art room as well as on outreach programmes in community centres. All sessions were devised and executed by me, with links to school curriculum where appropriate.
2014:  Workshop leader at the Victoria & Albert Museum, for Make It Painting, an October half-term series of work- shops for families, using the work of John Constable as inspiration.
2011 – 2012: Canadian Artist in Residence, Dulwich Picture Gallery.
2009 – 2011: Art Technician,Thomas’s School,Clapham. I was responsible for keeping 2 art rooms and a Design and Technology room organised, stocked and tidy, framing and hanging classwork around the school, prepping materials and providing assistance during art lessons. I instigated an “Artist in Residence” programme, inviting local artists to lead workshops and produce student exhibitions

ART PRACTICE: 
2023 – ongoing: Gage Gallery Collective, member, Victoria, XChanges studio member and Gallery coordinator.
2008 – 2017: Steering Group Committee member, South London Women Artists (SLWA). Part of the decision-making team, curating and hanging shows, leading critiques, and assisting with professional development talks.
2014 – 2016:Vice Chair, SLWA. 

THEATRICAL: 
2022: Supplied, at short notice, and from Canada, a small number of props to refurbish the CATS European tour. Liased with new, and previously used, trusted suppliers, to get it all done in less than a month
2019: Scenic props coordinator and set dresser on CATS, the musical, for its transfer to Vienna.
I have been chief props coordinator and set dresser for CATS since 1989, when it first toured the UK. It has since gone on to tour through a number of countries worldwide, and I have been involved in building and renovating at least 20 touring sets over the years. I recruit the makers and set dressers, advise carpenters and engineers on all aspects of this set’s construction, and head the teams that dress the set.
2014 – 2016: props coordinator, propmaker, and set dresser on the “new” version of CATS, at the London Palladium,Winter Garden Blackpool,Theatre Mogador Paris, and Neil Simon Theatre NYC. 
2014: props coordinator and set dresser for CATS, Royal Caribbean Cruise Ship Oasis
2009 – 2011: Scenic Props Coordinator on two European touring productions of CATS.
1986 – onwards: freelance propmaker, props buyer and set decorator in London.