2019

2019    Scarborough Art Gallery - Open Exhibition

2019    Design chosen for the 'Castle Writers' anthology publication

2019    Whitby Art Society Annual Exhibition at the Pannett Art Gallery

2019     Secretary of the 'Pickering Art Group'.

2016

2016    Whitby Art Society Annual Exhibition at the Pannett Art Gallery

2016    Lockton Artist's Open Studios and Exhibition 

2016    Vale of Pickering Art Club Annual Exhibition

2016    Lockton Tearooms and Gallery

2015

2015    Whitby Art Society Annual Exhibition at the Pannett Art Gallery

2015    Vale of Pickering Art Club annual exhibition 

2015   Lockton Tearooms and Gallery

2015    The gallery at ‘Priestleys at No36’ Bootham in York

2015   'Ballot Box' exhibition Ryedale Folk Museum

2014

2014    Whitby Art Society Annual Exhibition at the Pannett Art Gallery

2014   Vale of Pickering Art Club Annual Exhibition

2014   Lockton Tearooms and Gallery

2013

2013    Mural for the 'Hope Centre' Childrens home in Kathmandu         Nepal

2013    Whitby Art Society Annual Exhibition at the Pannett Art Gallery 

2013    Ryedale Open Art Exhibition at the Milton Rooms in Malton

2013    Grimsby National Open Art Exhibition - Abbey Walk Gallery      

2012

2012    Whitby Art Society Annual Exhibition at the Pannett Art Gallery 

2012     ‘Your Place Exhibition’ -  NYMNP  60th Anniversary - the                    Inspired  by… Gallery Danby

2012    Ryedale Open Art Exhibition at the Milton Rooms in Malton

2011

2011    Whitby Art Society Annual Exhibition at the Pannett Art Gallery

2011    Ryedale Open Art Exhibition at the Milton Rooms in Malton

2010

2010    Pomona Island Art Exhibition – Dept.  of  Conservation  Te Anau  New Zealand

2010    Whitby Art Society Annual Exhibition at the Pannett Art Gallery 

2010    Ryedale Open Art Exhibition at the Milton Rooms in Malton 

2010    Wartime Artists Weekend – Whitby Pavilion

2010    Help for Heroes Exhibition – Whitby Tourist Information Centre 

2009

2009    Whitby Art Society Annual Exhibition at the Pannett Art Gallery

2009    Ryedale Open Art Exhibition at the Milton Rooms in Malton

Prior to 2009

I retired from a full-time teaching in 2005 and embarked on a new career as an artist.  My teaching career spanned three decades and I consider myself extremely fortunate to have had the experience of working in four different counties (Suffolk, Kent, Derbyshire and North Yorkshire).   My final twenty years were as the Headteacher of a large Primary School & I have had the valuable experience over my career of working with children aged 4½ to 16 years.   

I began drawing and painting as a very young child and this has continued throughout my life.  In 1965, at the age of 15, I won an award in the ‘Castrol National Art Competition’.  It was also the same year that I sold my first painting. My GCE ‘O’ and ‘A’ levels included both Art and the History of Art. I attended evening 'Life Drawing' classes at Ipswich Art School. Choosing my career after sixth form proved extremely difficult. At that stage I was representing my County in two sports and my career teachers persuasively recommended a sporting direction instead of registering for an art foundation course and a career as an artist. I have mixed feelings about that guidance now. I gained my B.Ed (Hons) at Loughborough College and my MA at Teesside University.

Art and pottery have been essential elements throughout my life and a strong feature of my teaching and extra-curricular activities. For community & school events I designed and produced posters, programmes, tickets, certificates and painted scenery for stage productions.    I have also completed two sign writing commissions for shop fronts, along with associated business cards, one in Derbyshire and one in Yorkshire.  

I set up and ran a small studio pottery for many years in Furness Vale Derbyshire and I have taught pottery to primary school children for over twenty years.