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 Courses (2023-2025)

                         Personal Practice (PG1)

                          Critical Context (PG2)

                   Professional Practice (PG3)

     Intuitive Mind with Laxmi Hussain

Cosimo Art with Dean Melbourne - Talking & Writing About Your Art (2025)

​Newlyn School of Art ​- Conversations With Landscape (2024)

Workshop for Creative Leaders, Cranborne Chase - Sara Dudman "Unearthing Pigments" 2022

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

​Classical Art Academy, Southbourne (2017)

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Various professional artist led workshops developing

painting, monoprints, linocut, collage and mixed media techniques.

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Development

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ArtCan Selected Member Artist

Exhibiting Artist with Bath Contemporary Artists Fair (2023, '25 & '26)

Dorset Visual Arts member (DVA)

Bournemouth Arts Club Full Member

Visual Artists Association member

The Hyphae Collective member

Dorset Visual Arts Emerging Artists Group (2023)

Cosimo Art community 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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'100 x 100' Exhibition - BobCat Gallery, London (selected 2026) 

'For Me, Being A Woman' Exhibition - Gallery Grounds, Southampton (selected 2026)

Red House Museum Open, Christchurch (Selected 2025)

'Beyond The Edge' Solo Exhibition - VAA Open Spaces (Selected 2025)​​

Graduate Final Group Show - Contemporary Art Academy, Curator Kirsty Ogg, London (2025)

Bath Contemporary Artists Fair - Bath (BCAF 2025)

'At Home' Group Exhibition - Patch Bournemouth (selected 2025)

Solo Exhibition - David Lloyd Poole (2025)

'A Heathland Celebration' Group Show - The Bug Gallery, Arts Uni Bournemouth (2025)

'A Heathland Celebration' Group Show - The Gallery Upstairs, Poole (Selected 2025)

Spring Open Exhibition - The Gallery, Shaftesbury Arts Centre (2025)

Dorset 20:20 Summer Exhibition - Church House, Wimborne (2024)

Bath Contemporary Artists Fair - Bath (BCAF 2023)

Red House Museum Open, Christchurch (Selected 2022)

Dorset Art Weeks - Walford Mill Gallery, Wimborne (2022)

Solo Pop Up Exhibition - Walford Mill Gallery, Wimborne (2022)

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

'Art In Poundbury' Christmas Exhibition - Jubilee Hall, Poundbury (2022)

Loft Studios Group Exhibtion - Walford Mill Gallery, Wimborne (curated & exhibited, 2021)

Guest Artist Solo Exhibition - Purbeck New Wave Gallery, Swanage (2020)

Dorset 20:20 Art Society Group Show - The Gallery Upstairs, Poole (2020)

Summer Exhibition - Walford Mill Gallery, Wimborne (2019)

Broadstone Art Society Group Show - The Gallery Upstairs (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.