I was born, raised and educated in Suffolk, England. I was a Ceramics major at The West of England College of Art in Bristol where I spent three years learning about clay and its many areas of potential. This medium has so few limitations and the process of manipulating three dimensional form was entirely captivating. After college I wanted to explore the world a little and spent 2 years living in Crete, learning about the rich and diverse culture and the language. Teaching has been an important and especially rewarding part of most of my adult life and continues to be as I teach part-time at The Beverley Street Studio School in Staunton Virginia where I have lived since my two daughters and I came to The States in 1994.
My most recent work is the union of three mediums that I love to use. Enamel on copper has been my main focus of work for about twenty years. This process demands working at temperatures of 1500F to fuse powdered glass to copper. Once the work is in the kiln, which is only for a few seconds for each firing, all control over the work is relinquished. This experience is unique to potters and enamelists, and the process allows one to predict the outcome, but not have total control. As a result, one learns that risk taking and chance is a valid place to go within the creative process. Each piece of copper is fired many times, sometimes as many as twenty. Each firing adds new color and texture to the work.

During the last few years I have started to use oil paint as an alternative medium. This medium is always in the control of the artist; the work will be exactly what you prompt the paint to do. My fascination with both paint and enamel is surface. It is the materials and their unique characteristics that hold my attention. The subject matter is the means by which I explore the surface of the copper or the canvas. Recent work is the place where the two methods of working have converged with similar themes. The theme comes from several sources including landscape, color shifts with differing light sources and edges; edges where color and light juxtapose creating form and tension.

I have recently returned to using clay and I am currently working on a series of sculptural clay pieces that have been informed by the subject matter of the paintings and enamels. I feel as though I have arrived home as I manipulate the texture and form of three dimensional surface. The forms are a direct connect to my current 2D work.