Education               

Teaching Certificate, Sarum St Michael College, Salisbury.

HNC Public Art, Filton College Bristol.

MA Fine Art Research UWE Bristol

Selected Group Exhibitions and Opens

2024

Shortlisted for Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize

RA Summer Exhibition

The Englishwoman’s Flora Winchester University

Decennium Hestercombe Gallery Somerset

Haymaking No 6 Bruton, Somerset

2023

Shortlisted for Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize London then touring.

Casespace at Bruton Museum - The Englishwoman’s Flora

2022 

Ways of Seeing, Bell House, Dulwich Festival, London

Earth: Digging Deep in British Art 1781-2022. RWA Bristol

Changing Atmospheres Hestercombe Gallery Taunton

2020 

Most Admirably Improved by Art, Hestercombe Gallery Taunton, Somerset.

2019

This Woman’s Work  FAB Bath

RWA Open Sculpture, Bristol

The English Woman’s Flora, solo show The Black Swan, Frome, Somerset

2018

Invited artist at Walcot Chapel FAB Bath 

Somerset Open Studios.  

2017

Member of Somerset Art Works pilot project Prospectus, an alternative art school.

Black Swan Open Frome.

2016

Arborealist exhibition New Forrest and Art in Nature, Glos.  

Somerset Open Studios

2015

Commissioned artist for Momentum at Dove Studios, Butleigh, Somerset

The Magic of Trees Contains Art, Watchet

Wells Art Contemporary, Wells Somerset. Prizewinner

Black Swan Open, winner of Hauser and Wirth Prize.

2014

Arboretum RWA Bristol.

2013

Drawn, RWA Bristol, Innovation in Drawing Award

Black Swan Open Frome. Martin Bax Award & public vote Award.

Shortlisted for Jerwood Drawing Prize, London & touring.

RWA Autumn show, Bristol,  Prizewinner. St Cuthbert’s Mill Paper Award.

2012

Somerset Open Studios

2010

Selected for Open West, Cheltenham.

2008

Fieldwalking, solo show Brewhouse Theatre, Taunton.

Shortlisted for Jerwood Drawing Prize, London & touring.

Beneath the Surface, installation Marston House, Frome.

2007

East Weaves West, Collins Gallery Glasgow and touring.

Frontier, artist books Study Gallery, Poole, Dorset.

Ground, Frome Festival.  

Margins, Sherborne House, Dorset.

2006

MA Show, UWE Bower Ashton, Bristol.

Fab-rick! Stroud House Gallery.

2004

Art of Craft, commissioned artist ArtsReach, Dorset.

The Reading Room, artist books, Sherborne House, Dorset.

2003

Frome Festival, Marston House Frome.

Art for Life Commission, Musgrove Park Hospital, Taunton.

2002

Unravelled, Dorchester Festival Show.

2001

Bus Stop Gallery, touring group show, Som & Dorset.

1999

Millfield Open, Street Somerset.

Sixes & Sevens, Meeting House, Ilminister.

Rambert Dance, willow sculpture commission.

1998

Somerset Open Studios.

Off the Shelf, Sherborne.

1997

Bristol Folk House.

Teaching

Take Art, Somerset Rural Arts Agency.

Spaeda: supporting arts education.

Art teacher HMP Shepton Mallet Somerset.

Koestler Arts mentor.