As a sculptor I love working with the directness of clay, using all the techniques, coiling and slab building, making one-off pieces, which are fired then finished with acrylic paint. Classical sculpture was always highly coloured but we have this erroneous idea that they were all white and sterile looking.
As a sculptor I love working with the directness of clay, using all the techniques, coiling and slab building, making one-off pieces, which are fired then finished with acrylic paint. Classical sculpture was always highly coloured but we have this erroneous idea that they were all white and sterile looking.
Having said that, my obsession is catching a very simple form or line, primarily, then enhancing it with colour. Sometimes I use juxtapositions of two forms that I hope suggest contradictions of strength and fragility, stability and precariousness – like the relationships between human beings. But also other opposites, such as rest and activity, that I hope give my work a lively presence and a sense of each one having an individual character. But really all this is open to the eye of the beholder. I never want to be too prescriptive, and in saying this much I’ve probably said too much.
Fellow of the Royal Society of Sculptors
'50 Women Sculptors'
Some very exciting news, I am delighted to be included in '50 Women Sculptors', the first book to give overview of women sculptors. I am in very illustrious company alongside Elizabeth Frink, Rachel Whiteread, Sophie Ryder, Barbara Hepworth, Louise Bourgeois and many more.
'An overview of women making sculpture from the 1880s to today, this book explores the work of 50 extraordinary women artists who have forged a name for themselves in a male arena, as well as breaking rules, pushing boundaries and inspiring us with their visionary creations.'
2019
‘Sculpture in the City’ sponsored by Brookfield Properties, 99 Bishopsgate, London
2017
Guest speaker at the Ceramic Artist Association of Israel symposium at Tel Hai. Lecturing in Jerusalem at the Israel Museum and at the Bet Benyamini Centre in Tel Aviv
EDUCATION:
1985-87
Middlesex Polytechnic Foundation Course & Three Dimensional Design
1987-89
Bath College of Higher Education (Bath Spa University) (BA Ceramics)
SOLO EXHIBITIONS:
Arundel Contemporary, Arundel (2019 & 2017))
Kobi & Teal, Frome (2018)
Oink Gallery, Swindon (2018)
Chapel Arts (click here to see a book of the exhibition) (2017) Cheltenham
William Benington Gallery Sculptural at Coombe Trenchard (2015)
Chapel Lane Gallery, Tunbridge Wells (2015)
The Art Room, Topsham, Devon (2014)
New Craftsman Gallery, St. Ives
Beaux Arts, Bath
Bohun Gallery, Henley-on-Thames
The Open Eye Gallery, Edinburgh
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS: 2019-2020
Bath Schools of Art & Design, Bath Spa University, Alumni Show, Locksbrook Campus, Bath
Royal West of England Academy, shortlisted Academician Candidates Show, Bristol
RWA Sculpture Open Exhibition, Bristol
Blackwater Gallery, Cardiff
Creative Wiltshire, A Celebration of Art, Salisbury Museum, Salisbury
Sheridan Russell Gallery, Various Art Fairs, London
Beukenhof Pheonix, Belgium (2011-2020)
The Garden Gallery, Hampshire every year from 2005
Hannah Peschar Gallery, Surrey every year from 1990
Arundel Contemporary, Arundel, Sussex (2017-2020)
2018
RWA Open, Bristol (2018, 2016, 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007)
Affordable Art Fair Brussels, Hampstead & Battersea
VJB Arts in the Atrium of 10 Gresham Street, London
Urchfont Manor, Wiltshire, ‘Art in the Garden’ organised by The Friends of the Garden
2008 -2017
Cavaliero Finn, Dulwich & Somerset & Royal Society of Sculptors, London
The London Group Open, The Cello Factory, London
‘From Where I’m Standing’, Swindon Museum &Art Gallery
‘Discerning Eye Winners’ Exhibition, Temple Church, London
Doddington Hall & Gardens, Lincoln (2012 & 2016)
Tarpey Gallery, Derby
Lemon Street Gallery, Withiel, Truro (2014 & 2016)
William Benington Gallery Sculptural at Coombe Trenchard (2012, 2013 & 2015)
The Biscuit Factory, Newcastle: ‘Gravity’ (Special Exhibition)
Denise Yapp Contemporary Art, Monmouth
Bohun Gallery, Henley on Thames (Regular exhibitor)
Ceramic Art London (2013 & 2011)
Quenington Sculpture Trust Fresh Air (2017, 2013, 2011 & 2009)
Sculpt Gallery, Essex
Rococo Gardens, Painswick (Commissioned Artist)
Shirley Crowther Fine Art
View Art Gallery, Bristol
Chichester Cathedral, Sculpture in Paradise (2008 & 2006)
The Himalayan Garden & Sculpture Park, N.Yorkshire
[email protected] Royal British Society of Sculptors, London
The Martin Tinney Gallery, Cardiff
ING Discerning Eye* (*Specially Selected Artist)
Eye to Eye, Cork Street, London
The Scottish Gallery
Prizes:
ING "Discerning Eye" Exhibition, Mall Gallery, London - Regional Winner-2007
Shortlisted for the 'Brian Mercer Bronze Casting Residency' by the Royal British Society of Sculptors
Collections:
Lord Carrington, Sir John Mortimer, Damon de Laszlo, Simon Relph CBE, Lady Osborne, Robert Race, Priory Hotel, Bath, British Consul, Ivory Coast, Anthony Horowitz, Mary Portas, Swindon Museum & Art Gallery
Artist Talk Magazine (feature article - issue 3)
Art Maze Mag (feature article – issue 1)
Ceramic Review (feature article - issue 282)
The New Age of Ceramics by Hannah Stouffer (Gingko Press Inc.)
Contemporary Ceramics International Perspective by Emmanuel Cooper (Thames & Hudson)
Ceramics for Garden and Landscapes ed. Karin Hessenberg (A&C Black, London, 2000).
Creative Ideas for Small Gardens by Anthony Paul (HarperCollins);
Classic Garden Features by David Stuart (Conran Octopus);
The Garden Sanctuary by Keith Mitchell (Hamlyn);
The Sculptor's Bible by John Plowman (KP Books);
The Sculpting Techniques Bible ed. Claire Waite Brown (Chartswell Books Inc).
Ceramic Design Course by Anthony Quinn (Barron's)
Commissions:
The Water Deities (1997) ArtSway, Sway, Hampshire (garden designer: Cleve West)
Audience and Muse(1998) Brewhouse Art Centre, Taunton
Work selected as Southern Arts Prize by Beckett biographer James Knowlson (winner of Southern Arts Literary Award 1999, for his book, Damned to Fame: A Life of Samuel Beckett.)
Commissioned to create a new on-screen ident for ITV as part of the prestigious ‘ITV Creates’ project (2019)
