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Membership and Affiliations
Ceri Hand Network, International membership
Arts Derbyshire
Derbyshire Makes
Derbyshire Makers
Friend and exhibitor of Creative Melbourne, Derbyshire
Exhibitions
2025
March: Derbyshire Makes in Swadlincote part of wider "get making" Arts Council initiative, Derbyshire
April: Heage Art Group, Spring art exhibition, Derbyshire
May: Belper Art Trail, Derbyshire
May: Derbyshire Open Arts Trail at Creative Melbourne Gallery, Derbyshire
June: Creative Melbourne Gallery - Anthology a curated exhibition, Derbyshire
July: The Little Gallery in the Derbyshire Makers Shop, Peak Village
August: Staunton Harold Summer Artisan Show, Leicestershire
September: Melbourne Art and Architecture Trail, Derbyshire
October: ArtStand group Autumn art exhibition, Crich, Derbyshire
2024
April: Belper Art Trail, Derbyshire
June: Bonsall Art Trail
July - Cornucopia a curated exhibition at Creative Melbourne Gallery, Derbyshire
September - Melbourne Art and Architecture Trail, Derbyshire
November & December: Joy a curated exhibition at Creative Melbourne Gallery, Melbourne, Derbyshire
December: Melbourne Christmas Makers Market, The Assembly Rooms, Melbourne, Derbyshire
2023
April: Belper Art Trail, Derbyshire
August: March: Heage Art Group, Spring art exhibition, Derbyshire
July: The Gatehouse Art Pop up Gallery, Haddon Hall, Derbyshire
July & August: Hot a curated exhibition at Creative Melbourne Gallery, Derbyshire
August: Staunton Harold Hall Summer Artisan Show, Leicestershire
Melbourne Art and Architecture Trail, Derbyshire
Staunton Harold Hall Christmas Artisan Show, Leicestershire
2022
March & April: A Splash of Colour a curated exhibition at Creative Melbourne Gallery, Derbyshire
April: The Derbyshire Makers Easter Fair, The Whitworth Centre, Derbyshire
May: Belper Art Trail, Derbyshire
June: Bonsall Art Trail, Derbyshire
July: The Gatehouse Art Pop up Gallery, Haddon Hall, Derbyshire
October: The Derbyshire Makers Autumn Fair, The Whitworth Centre, Derbyshire
November: Haddon Hall Christmas Artisan Fair, Derbyshire
2021
March: Bonsall Art Trail Online Exhibition
April: Wool on Woods, Belper, Derbyshire
July, August & September: British Vogue magazine and Online Retail listings
July: Artists on the Riseonline art auction, curated by Chinwe Russell, Chilwell Auction House, Southend on Sea, Essex
August to October: Flaxen Hair, Melbourne, Derbyshire
November: Haddon Hall Christmas Artisan Fair, Derbyshire
2020
April: Belper Art Trail "Window Exhibition" and social distancing walk, Derbyshire
June: Dronfield Art Fair Online exhibition, Derbyshire
November: Haddon Hall Christmas Artisan Fair, Derbyshire
2019
April: October - The Messy Hare Gallery, Burton on Trent, Staffordshire
August, September & October: Flaxen Hair, Window exhibition, Derby Road, Melbourne, Derbyshire
2018
August & September: Post Office pop up - photographic pop up industrial, nature inspired and of poppies (as a fundraiser to commemorate 100 years Armistice, proceeds to the British Legion), Melbourne, Derbyshire
August, September & October: Flaxen Hair, Window exhibition, Derby Road, Melbourne, Derbyshire
September: Rolls Royce Ltd, The Training Academy print auction pf a photographic canvas of heritage stained glass window of The Battle of Britain Pilot, in support of Armistice fundraiser, Derby, Derbyshire
November: Tutbury Castle Lodge, Ladies night Art Auction to raise money for Women's Aid of an Oil Pastel and raffle auction, Burton, Staffordshire
2016 - 2017
Myself and my husband embarked on converting and agricultural ruin into a dwelling, which is now both our home and my art studio the process of which birthed an exciting and renewed desire to create again
2013
October: I was commissionedto paint 4 larger pieces for Medical Midland Psychiatry and Psychology (reports) Ltd. Birmingham City Centre
2011
July: Kirk Langley Art Society, Church Lane, Kirk Langley, Derbyshire
June: Ashbourne Art Festival, Derbyshire
July: Radbourne Church Fair, Brailsford, Derby
September: Wirksworth Framing Company, Derbyshire
October: A Solo Exhibition at Cromford Mill Heritage Centre at the art pop up gallery
2010
April: Turnditch Art Group, Derbyshire
June: Ashbourne Art Festival, Derbyshire
2003-2008
I diversified from teaching into supporting young people with recovery from psychosis as a youth worker linking them with both creative and education activities and community groups as well as raising awareness.
1994- 1999
1997 November: Joseph Wright Art Gallery and Museum at the Derby Open
1992 -1993
Post Graduate Certificate in Counselling at Derby University
1993-1994
PGCE at Cambridge University in English (Secondary teaching)
February: A solo exhibition of images and paintings, Faculty of English Language in Education, Trumpington Road, Cambridge
1991-92
June: A Solo Exhibition , Minami Koma Gun, Yamanashi Ken, Japan
I was experimenting using watercolours and silver inspired by all the exciting textiles and temples and floral life around me
I was also inspired by the imagery in the literature I was reading by overseas writers
1988 -91
BA Hons English Language and Medieval Literature, University of Durham