Artist / Printmaker born in St Helens Lancashire, living and working in Oxford

TRAINING

2001        Cheltenham College of Art                M.A. Fine Art Printmaking

2001        6 month Study secondment (MA)        Rome, Italy

1997        Newbury College, Berkshire                Lecturer, Art and Design

1994        Barnfield College, Bedfordshire                Lecturer, Art and Design

1991        Leicester Polytechnic                        P.G.C.E Art Education

1990        Leicester Polytechnic                        B.A.(Hons.) Fine Art Printmaking

1988        3 month Study secondment (BA)        Strasbourg, France        

2002         The Sarah Wiseman Gallery, Oxford, Solo show

1999        The Sarah Wiseman Gallery, Oxford, Solo show

1998        Wycombe Guildhall, High Wycombe, Solo show

2005        Said Business School, Oxford University, Oxford, Group show

2005         Linacre College, Oxford University, Oxford, Group show

2004         The Sarah Wiseman Gallery, Oxford, Two man show

1997        The Sarah Wiseman Gallery, Revealing the Image, Oxford, Group show

1992        Gallery 33, Luton, The Women's Room, Group show

1990        Leicester City Gallery, Group show

1987        Nicole Buck Contemporain, Strasbourg, France, Group show

ARTIST'S STATEMENT

Fundamentally my work concerns itself with the dynamics of geographical phenomenon, the weather, the natural environment and their subsequent effects both temporal and spiritual upon the landscape and ourselves.

Weather and the natural environment are multi-dimensional. The nature of their existence is very sensual, has touch, taste, temperature, shape, colour, time, volume, mass and space. Simultaneously the movements of these elements exist as both scientific and spiritual phenomenon. Dynamically these elements move and breathe together as a kind of global conversation. Organic in nature, elastic, moving, receding clear and also ambiguous at the same time, they remain the last frontier and beyond any form of control. The movement of weather and natural phenomenon will always have its sense of mystery for us as spiritual beings, and their effects upon us as civilizations will continue to be documented in many forms throughout our history.

There is never an 'absence' of weather. It is metaphoric in the sense that it communicates to us aspects of ourselves, and temperamentally it is not dissimilar to our own nature as human beings. It can easily be anthropomorphised; we give it names and project characters and personalities onto it to build patterns of behaviour in an attempt to explain its erratic, contrasting, violent, destructive and sometimes docile demeanour.

It is this metaphoric comparison which forms the conceptual content of my work.