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Exhibitions / commissions 1987 Century Galleries, Henley-on-Thames. Solo exhibition of watercolours 1988 Mall Galleries, London, Royal Society of Painters in Watercolour; 1st Highland Open Exhibition; Broughton Gallery, Lanarkshire 1990 3rd Highland Open Exhibition; Broughton Gallery, Lanarkshire 1991 The Tent, Edinburgh Festival, with Di Gilpin, knitwear designer 1992 Skye Connection touring exhibition, Black Swan Guild Frome, Portree, Inverness Art Gallery and several other venues. Commission for five-piece hanging for reception area of Hilton International Hotel Glasgow, on a theme of Scottish history and folklore 1993 Country Living Fair, Business Design Centre, London; Scottish Artists and Artist Craftsmen Exhibition, Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh 1994 Country Living Fair; Artspace 94 as part of Oxford Artweeks; Bonhoga Gallery, Weisdale, Shetland; Masks and Puppets Black Swan Guild, Frome; Broughton Gallery, Lanarkshire 1995 Country Living Fair, March 1995. Artspace 95 as part of Oxford Artweeks; Yew Tree Gallery, Slad; Henley Festival. Five months in Indonesia, Australia, Nepal, North East India 1996 Country Living Fair; Open Studio during Oxford Artweeks; Henley Festival; Artizana, Prestbury; Fitch's Ark Born Free; Oxford Gallery Christmas Exhibition 1997 Art at the Abbey and Artspace 97 as part of Oxfordshire Artweeks; Art in Action Gallery, Waterperry; Broughton Gallery Lanarkshire; Fitch's Ark Born Free; House and Garden Fair Olympia, represented by Fisherton Mill; Ruskin Gallery, Sheffield, Christmas Crackers; Mid Pennine Arts Christmas Exhibition, Burnley 1998 Singing the Blues, Art in Action Gallery, Waterperry; A Celebration of the The Sea, Fisherton Mill, Salisbury; ArtAid, Green College, Oxford; Judith Glue, Edinburgh, Spring exhibition; Showcase at Abingdon Museum; Oxfordshire Artweeks open studio; Oriel Myrddin Wild Thing Exhibition, Carmarthen; Commission for the V&A to produce special edition Feather scarves for the Aubrey Beardsley Exhibition October 1998 - January 1999; Christmas Exhibitions at Pam Schomberg Gallery, Colchester and Brewery Arts, Cirencester 1999 Birmingham Spring Fair, represented by Design Gap, February; Oxford Artweeks; Art in Action, Waterperry ; The Contemporary Craftsman, Monmouth WING exhibition; Mari'o, Quimperlé, Brittany; five week study trip to Indonesia 2000 Oriel Myrddin, Carmarthen, Myths and Legends exhibition: associated two-week Millennium Festival residencies, Carmarthenshire, June; Art in Action, Waterperry; Guild of Spinners, Weavers and Dyers Continuum Exhibition, Mansfield 2001 Oxfordshire Artweeks; Christmas Exhibition , Millennium Galleries at Graves Art Gallery, Sheffield; Newington House Gallery, Charlbury; Pam Schomberg Gallery Christmas Exhibition; Commissioned hanging for Artists and Illustrators Show, Business Design Centre Sponsored by Suasion, A&I Magazine, Hahnemühle Fine Art and Epson 2002 Oxfordshire Artweeks; Strands Exhibition (Oxford Guild of Weavers, Spinners and Dyers and Oxfordshire Basketmakers); Hanging for Artists and Illustrators Show, Business Design Centre Islington 2003 Oxfordshire Artweeks; 2 Fish Gallery Earth Elements exhibiton; The Arc, Chester; Newington House Gallery Christmas Exhibition; 6 Guilds Exhibition, Cheltenham; Lee Chapman Gallery, Keswick 2004 Oxfordshire Artweeks; Silk in Santa Fe, juried Fine Art exhibition of Silk Painters International (SPIN) at Santa Fe, New Mexico. Animals section prizewinner; 20-21 Visual Arts Centre Handmade 2004 exhibition, Scunthorpe, November - January; Queens Gallery, Dundee Christmas Exhibition; Gateway Galleries, Shrewsbury, Christmas Exhibition 2005 The Market at Art in Action, Waterperry, near Wheatley, Oxford 14th - 17th July; Something Special - Handcrafted in Devon pre-Christmas Show with Devon Artsculture; The Art of Christmas, exhibition of design-led contemporary craft at Crew Yard Gallery, Patchings Art Centre Nottingham 2006 Devon Artsculture Giant Craft Fair, Barnstaple Pannier Market, June 11th; The Market at Art in Action, Waterperry, near Wheatley, Oxford, July 13th - 16th; West Devon Open Studios Sept 9th -17th; Object: Designer Gifts for Christmas - Devon Guild of Craftsmen at Riverside Mill Bovey Tracey 18th November to Wednesday 3 January 2007 2007 Threads of Inspiration,Saltram House, Plymouth, April; Carbon Footprint, Devon Guild of Craftsmen Summer Exhibition July- September; The Market at Art in Action, Waterperry, Oxford, July; Craft Focus, Devon Guild of Craftsmen, Bovey Tracey June - September; Inspirations, Old Fire Station, Henley, November; Gifted, Devon Guild of Craftsmen, November - January; Wish List, Model House Gallery Llantrisant, November 2008 Contemporary Craft Fair, Bovey Tracey, June 2009 Crafts
Showcase at Burton Art Gallery and Museum, April - May; Art
in Action, Waterperry; Summer Exhibition Devon
Guild of Crafsmen; Wish List Model House Gallery Llantrisant
Current galleries with a permanent selection of work: Devon Guild of Craftsmen, Riverside Mill, Bovey Tracey, Devon; Art in Action Gallery, Waterperry; Burton Art Gallery and Museum Craft Gallery, Bideford; Raven Press Gallery, Isle of Skye (seasonal); Salar Gallery, Hatherleigh; Griffins Yard, South Molton; Walford Mill Craft Centre, Wimborne, Dorset; Verandah Gallery, Oxford
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Publicity / publications / media 1993 Selected by Mary Schoeser for International Textile Design, Laurence King 1993 Silk work featured in Painting Fabric; Charles Letts Contemporary Crafts series 1994 Project and several works featured in Fabric Painting edited by Miranda Innes, Dorling Kindersley 1996 Front cover and feature Art and Craft magazine 1996 Interview for Carlton TV; TV feature for Central News South 1996 Country Living Magazine, October 1997 New Crafts: Silk Painting Gallery; Anness Publishing 1994, 1996 BBC Homes and Antiques Magazine 1999 A3 pull-out poster and interview feature for Art and Craft magazine, 1999 BBC Homes & Antiques feature 2002 Feature in Artists and Illustrators Magazine 2005 Devon Life; Feature in Journal of the Guild of Silk Painters 2006 D'Art et de Soie Bulletin Semestriel No. 19, Printemps; Feature for September Devon Today 2007 Peinture sur Soie no. 94, éditions de saxe 2008 Work featured in Textiles Now by Drusilla Cole, published by Laurence King; articlefor the Journal of Weavers, Spinners and Dyers, September 2009 Interview for Radio Devon January; Western Morning News feature, April; BBC Radio 4 Making History feature, November |
Selection of Teaching / Lectures / Demonstrations 1992 As part of the Skye Connection touring exhibition: silk painting, mask-making and textile workshops for children and young adults in Frome, Somerset, subsidised by South West Arts 1994 Daily one-hour talk / demonstrations given during Country Living Fair, Business Design Centre, Islington, sponsored by Country Living Magazine 1995 Two one-hour demonstration lectures in Lecture Theatre at Country Living Fair as part of the advertised programme. Sponsored by George Weil and Sons and Country Living Magazine; demonstration and interview for Carlton TV; "How-to" demonstration for camera on technique and design for Miranda Innes' book in the DK Crafts Library series 1996 Five minute TV feature for Central News South; demonstration for George Weil and Sons' stand at the Artists and Illustrators Show, NEC, Birmingham 2000 Three Millennium Festival Residencies at Pontyberem and Teilo Sant Primary schools and Maes-yr-Yrfa Ysgol Gyfn, Carmarthenshire subsidised by the National Lottery; courses at Waterperry; Cogges Manor Farm, Witney 2001 BBC Big Arts project with Donnington Middle School, Oxford 2002 Project with villagers of Milton, Oxfordshire to make processional silk banners, sponsored by National Lottery; design and hanging of Strands Exhibition, X-Change Gallery, Oxford for Oxford Guild of Weavers, Spinners and Dyers and Oxfordshire Basketmakers 2003 Lecture for Embroidery
Day at Wolfson College, Oxford 2004 Workshop "Working in Notebooks" for Oxford Embroiderers' Workshop; demonstration on Indigo Dyeing for the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford 2007 Tutor at National Association of Weavers, Spinners and Dyers Summer School, Falmouth College of Art, Falmouth Cornwall; Craft Focus, Devon Guild of Craftsmen, Bovey Tracey June - September; Workshop in card-making for Hatherleigh Festival June; Two workshops for International Silk Painting Festival, Chelmsford, Essex October 2008 Lecture at Universidad Central del Ecuador, Quito on the natural dye trade 2009 Course given at Denman College sponsored by Awards for All; presentation A Dyer's Tale given at the conference on Sustainability organised by the Worshipful Company of Dyers, London; paper A Leeds Archive Rediscovered and the Orchil Trail to Ecuador given at DHA (Dyes in History and Archaeology) Conference, Posnan, Poland Professional Organisations Member of the Devon Guild of Craftsmen; Guild of Silk Painters; Batik Guild |
