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"I create art to connect with something greater than myself.   I am fascinated by human potential for transformation and how it connects to the evolutionary cosmology and the Journey of our Universe. This passion stems from childhood wonder and a challenging personal journey to find connectedness within nature, the cosmos and all things.

 

A previous career as a health professional (                 ) informs my interest in well-being and creativity.   I am now

committed to facilitating meaningful reflection, connectedness and transformation through my work and art

practice.  I work to unite newer light, digital and interactive technologies with fine art and sculpture.  Using a wide

range of materials and methods, I work rapidly to transcend the rational mind and capture the essence of what I

am connecting to.   My final pieces are the manifestation of extensive sensory experimentation via drawing (pencil,

charcoal, pastels, inks), painting (watercolour, acrylic, oils), sculpture (wire, clay, paper, thermoplastics, fibreoptics),

exploring corresponding movements with the body, and animation through light, film and kinetic technologies.  

 

I find multi-disciplinary, diverse and multi-cultural work compelling as it enables the possibility of unexpected creative discovery at the edge of the disciplines.  Working to go beyond the familiar, creates the space for new dimensions to open up. 

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My aim is to facilitate others to connect with inspiration and their individual passion through viewing my installations or participating in my workshops.  I hope that my work triggers a process that reveals that at this moment each individual belongs and can make a unique and meaningful difference and contribution to the evolution of our universe. My installations are an invitation for the viewer to live their potential, to enter an immersive experience of

a greater reality: a dynamic world of connectedness, and creative processes."   

 

EDUCATION

2019- 2020 Post Graduate Certificate in Education, University of Greenwich 

2018 Level 3 in Education in Training

2016 Arts Award training - Bronze and Silver, experience in Gold.

2010-2013 The Art Academy, London – Diploma in Fine Art, Sculpture and Painting (First)

1989-1993 Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh - BSc (Hons) Nutrition and Dietetics SRD

1980-1983 Goldsmiths College of Art, London - Degree Course

1979-1980 Camberwell College of Art, London - Foundation Art Course

 

TEACHING AND FACILITATION EXPERIENCE 

Oct '21-present  Art tutor Hampshire Cultural Trust

Apr '21 - June 21 Create to Connect, Nottingham City Arts - Series of Online workshops to prevent Covid Loneliness        

                             Arts Medicine Lab grant, collaboration with Luke Brown Dance Company

Jan '21-present  Founder and Creative Facilitator Arts Medicine Lab

Oct '20- present Visiting Lecturer, Hertford Regional College

Oct '20-Jan '21   Founder, creator and teacher - Life Drawing Re-Imagined - Online art class

Nov 2020            Facilitator/workshop Leader - Tell Me a Story - Art as Transformation

2019-2020          Lecturer in Art and Design, Course Leader, Level 3, New City College, Epping Forest Campus,

                             Teaching Levels 1-3 and Foundation

2013-present    Tutor at the Art Academy and Creative Team Development Manager - Teaching core skills in drawing,                                  painting, mixed media and sculpture, developing and running a range of Unlocking Creativity courses,                                Exploring Movement through Mixed Media, skill development courses for young artists, facilitating                                      Creative Team Building events.

Feb 2019            Workshop for Young Carers, 'Hear Us Shout,' Oaklands College, St Albans 

Mar 2019           Workshop for Health and Social Care Students: 'Health and well-being through the Arts', Epping Forest                               College​

Dec 2018           Tutor for life drawing course, St Francis' Hospice, Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire

Jun 2018            Awesome Elements – day workshop for STEAM day at Aureus School, Didcot

Apr 2018           Celebrating the Life Force through colour, form and Texture – Workshop for Association of Biodynamic                               Massage Therapists, Royal Society of Medicine

Mar 2018           Light in the Tunnel – Shining a Light on Didcot’s high tech past and future – facilitating interactive art                                  project at Global Citizenship Day, workshops and final installation for Aureus school, Didcot.

Nov 2017           Arts and Mental Health Training Day, Langley Academy Workshop Workshop and presentation on                                         Unlocking Creativity.  Uniting Head, Heart and Hands, Happiness Matters Conference 

2016                    Developing and running art-science workshops for children of all ages at Langley Academy (Arts                                          Council Award and Residency)

2016 onwards    Bronze, Silver and Gold Arts Award training for all ages

2015-2016          Creative team development manager, the Art Academy: running and developing creative team                                             building for the corporate world and social and charitable groups

2016 -present    Mentoring Xtra.Art, Young Artist collective (ages 17-21), Slough

2015                    Creative Royston, Lantern making workshops for all ages of 350 young people to create Tree of Light

2015                    Wac Arts - Developing and facilitating creative workshops for different groups of young people with                                    learning difficulties (Arts Council Award and Residency)

Prior to this many years experience of workshop and training programme development and facilitation for health professionals and clients of all ages and backgrounds.