I am a Textile Artist living and working in North East Lincolnshire, UK.
My work has a strong tradition of drawing developed from my art education at Grimsby School of Art, and both St Martin’s School of Art and Goldsmith’s College where I was taught by Christine Risley, Eirian Short and the indomitable Constance Howard who have all influenced my way of working ever since.

On graduating from Goldsmiths College with a first class honours degree in Textiles/Embroidery in 1975 I was invited to join the 62 Group by Eirian Short and exhibited with the Group the following year in Greenwich .
I returned to my hometown of Grimsby in 1975 and became a partner/designer in a clothing retail and manufacturing business which then took over my life for the next 28 years .

In 2003 I returned to my stitched Textile work and have been working and exhibiting regularly ever since.

In 2008 I had 2 pieces of work selected for the prestigious ‘Art of the Stitch’ International Open Exhibition 2008/9 (Biennial Exhibition presented by the Embroiderer’s Guild in association with Coat’s Crafts) -2 pieces selected from 944 entries of which 56 were chosen to be shown.
In October 2008 I was invited to rejoin the 62 Group of Textile Artists, a group established in 1962 to provide opportunities for professional textile artists to exhibit and promote their work both nationally and internationally.

My images are usually autobiographical. They are personal but not sentimental and often what ‘at first glance’ appears to be homely, on closer inspection reveals itself to be slightly surreal. I use thread and stitch as a painter would use paint and brushes, each stitch making a mark of colour, multiplying and building until it has filled the canvas. My stitch vocabulary is simple and straightforward - straight stitch, chain stitch, blanket stitch and needleweaving. Working with stranded cotton means that I can vary the number of threads in the needle and mix colours - much as a painter would mix colours in a palette.

Future Exhibitions include:
May/June 2009 Woman with a Fish, Gate Gallery, Grimsby
November/ December 2009 - Solo Show, Campden Gallery, Chipping Campden

Recent Exhibitions include:
March 2008 - June 2009 Art of the Stitch - International Open Exhibition 2008/9
(Biennial Exhibition presented by the Embroiderer’s Guild in association with Coat’s Crafts.
International Tour - Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery,UK, Deutsches Textilmuseum, Krefeld, Germany, Museum of Applied Arts, Budapest, Hungary, Fundacion Valentin de Madariga, Seville, Spain.
May 2008- Past Forward -group exhibition, Gate Gallery,Grimsby
February 2008 - Black and White - group exhibition,Gate Gallery, Grimsby
August 2007 -Riches of Stitches Exhibition ,Bankfield Museum ,Halifax, (Embroiderers Guild )
July 2007 -Past & Present exhibition -Gate Gallery ,Joint show ,Thornton Abbey embroideries and photographs with Caroline Matthaei ,sculptor
June 2007 - Humber to the Wash Exhibition - The Ropewalk, Barton upon Humber, (Open Art Competition 3 of 100 entries selected from 300 entries to be exhibited.)
May 2007 - Riches of Stitches Exhibition - (The Wedding) Bilston Craft Gallery (Embroiderers Guild )
April 2007 - Exhibition of Coastal series of stitched textiles and photographs.
(One of three Grimsby born artists invited to exhibit at the Opening exhibition of Gate Gallery in Grimsby .)
October 2006 - Solo Exhibition of Stitched Textiles/ Photographs.

Several pieces of my work are currently exhibited and for sale at GATE GALLERY,Grimsby .
www.gategallery.co.uk