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.