2002–present: Painting to commission and for Scarlet Ark gallery.
Exported paintings to Canada, Australia, Africa, France,
Belgium and exhibited and sold to galleries and retail outlets
in the UK, from Edinburgh to Oxford, established hand made
designer jewellery company Googa-joo and working as a
Hypnotherapist with an emphasis on creative excellence
2003: Exhibited in The National Exhibition Centre
2000: Nominated for national Medal of Excellence for Design
and Extended Embroidery. Highly Commended
1998: Winner of national Medal of Excellence for Working Designs
and Extended Embroidery
1998-2006: Freelance artist
1998: Work used in a promotional video for City and Guilds
1997: Banner design exhibited in Barbican , London
1997: Awarded top of the range sewing machine by Husqvarna
To initiate greater interest in machine embroidery
in the South West
1997: Exhibition The Other Place, Ledbury Herefordshire
1996: Exhibition The Jinney Ring, Hanbury Worcestershire
1995–2005: Malvern Hills College of Art:
City and Guilds Creative Sketchbooks
Fine Arts Degree
City & Guilds Working Designs/ Embroidery Part 2 –
Highly Commended
City & Guilds Working Designs/Embroidery Part 1
Medal of Excellence
1992–1994: Qualified in Integral Therapy and hypnotherapy
with emphasis on Creative Excellence Part 1 distinction
and Advanced Diploma, distinction
1975–1998: Free lance Fashion Design. Peripatetic Piano teacher,
Wells House School, Malvern and in private practice
1974–1978: Studied drama and acted in film and theatre
1973-1976: Free lance music composer sand script writer of several
productions of Son et Lumiere and theatre
1968–1973: Freelance Journalist, music and literary critic
1965- 1968: West Hill College Birmingham English and Music