Biography
I was Born 1953, in Newton Abbot, Devon. My father was a UNESCO expert and so much of my childhood and youth spent in Syria and Cyprus. After a year’s Art Foundation, 1972-3; I Studied Fine Art, at Cardiff College of Art, followed by teacher training in Birmingham.
In 1977 I travelled to Kenya and worked as an art teacher, travelled extensively throughout Kenya and developed an interest in the artistic traditions of the Swahili Culture.
In 1980 moved to London to work on own art and rented a studio at the Metropolitan
Wharf, Wapping working along-side many emerging artist in Wapping at that time. I was employed as a play leader with Camden Council from1982-1992. I worked on art projects with the children, painting murals during this period.
Following further teacher training and social work jobs, I decided at the Millennium that I would devote myself again to painting. To that end I began attending weekly Life Classes and I had a built a studio built in the garden of my house in Northwood.
Almost all of the art, on this web site has been produced post 2000. Since, 2006 I have been working part-time at Harrow College. In January 2007 I began work on Stations of the Cross, fourteen paintings on the Passion of Christ, for Pinner Parish Church. I have now extended my work on this religious theme to Paintings on ‘The Women of Jerusalem’ and a second series of The Stations of the Cross, this time in a more traditional form.