Studying History of Art at Manchester University drew me north from my upbringing in Hampshire. However Yorkshire has been my home for more than 40 years. A first career as a picture specialist for Fine Art Auctioneers Phillips and then Christie’s was gradually overtaken by my need to make art. I returned to education gaining a first class BA in Sculpture(2002) followed by an MA in Fine Art at Leeds University before giving up the valuation career and launching my own art practice, whilst working as an Artist in Education at the Yorkshire Sculpture Park (since 2005).

An artist’s residency at Leeds College of Art (AA2A) in the casting workshop (2007/8) reinforced my fascination with fluid materials and processes, through the use of both plaster and concrete. Further exploration was facilitated by the award of Leverhulme Trust funding for a Residency in Civil Engineering at the University of Leeds (2010/11) with the aim of researching the creative potential of concrete in a scientific laboratory.

Elected a member of the Royal Society of Sculptors in 2009, I have had work selected for exhibition at the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, the Royal Society of Sculptors in London, the Royal West of England Academy as well as many exhibition venues in the North. Responding to different historical places from cathedrals to mills, landscape to interiors, has inspired sculptural assemblages, often incorporating found objects old and new. My studio has become an archive of curiosities awaiting repurposing as well as my making space for many different art forms.