CV
Membership and Affiliations
Ceri Hand Network, International membership
Arts Derbyshire
Derbyshire Makes
Derbyshire Makers
Friend and exhibitor of Creative Melbourne Gallery, Derbyshire Friend and exhibitor of the ArtStand group
Exhibitions
2026
April - May: Sharpe’s Pottery Museum, Sweet Caroline’s Cafe, Swadlincote, Derbyshire April - May: Creative Melbourne Gallery Harmony a curated exhibition, Derbyshire May - June: Artbourne art trail, Ashbourne, Derbyshire June: Ashbourne Festival Summer Exhibition July: Six Streets Art Trail, Derby September: Wirksworth Festival Art Trail, Derbyshire September: Melbourne Festival Art Trail, Derbyshire
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 commissioned to 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