B: 1975 in Bolton, Greater Manchester

Raised in Falmouth, Cornwall

Currently living in Wimborne, Dorset

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Education

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Contemporary Art Academy London - Development Course (2023/24)

                  Personal Practice (PG1)

                 Critical Context (PG2)

​Newlyn School of Art ​- Painting & Mixed Media (2024)

Arts University Bournemouth - Art & Design (2017 & 2022)

​Classical Art Academy, Southbourne (2017)

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Various professional artist led workshops developing

painting, monoprints, collage and mixed media techniques.

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Development

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Exhibiting Artist with Bath Contemporary Artists Fair (2023)

The Hyphae Collective member

Dorset Visual Arts Emerging Artists Group (2023)

Dorset 20:20 Art Society member

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Teaching my Expressive Watercolour Workshops at Walford Mill Gallery, Wimborne

and Shire Hall Museum, Dorchester​

Teaching private painting tuition

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Residencies

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Resident artist at Walford Mill Gallery, Wimborne (2019 – 2022)

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Exhibitions

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Dorset 20:20 Summer Exhibition (2024)

BCAF Bath (2023)

Red House Museum Open, Christchurch (Selected 2022)

Walford Mill Gallery (Dorset Art Weeks, 2022)

Walford Mill Gallery Solo Show Pop Up Exhibition (2022)

Picture My World Exhibition (International Online/Tara Axford 2022)

Art In Poundbury Christmas Exhibition (2022)

Walford Mill Gallery, Wimborne (curated & exhibited, 2020)

Purbeck New Wave Gallery, Swanage (2020)

The Gallery Upstairs, Poole - Dorset 2020 Art Society (2020)

Walford Mill Gallery, Wimborne (2019)

The Gallery Upstairs, Poole - Broadstone Art Society (2019)

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Artists & Illustrators Editors Pick Portfolio – Selected Spring 2023

SAA Artist of the Year 2019 – Longlisted

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2019 - 2022 Involved as a member of an artists' co-operative at Walford Mill Gallery, Dorset collaborating with fellow residents and Trustees to help curate and steward exhibitions, host open studios and attend management meetings.

I now work from my own private studio in rural Dorset.