Curriculum Vitae
Exhibitions and Awards
Sharing paintings and prints, The Shetland Snow series, mixed media paintings and collagraph prints, Mareel, Lerwick, Shetland, April – June 2025
VACMA: Visual Arts and Craft Makers Award, towards research on Japanese Mokuhanga prints, Creative Scotland/Shetland Arts, 2025
Underneath, a community exhibition at Hymhus, Bigton, Shetland, 2024
Waddered, a community exhibition at Hymhus, Bigton, Shetland 2022
Bonhoga Christmas, selected group exhibition at Bonhoga Gallery, Shetland Arts, October – December 2022
Pictures for spring, The Kergord Hatchery Bookshop, Shetland, 2021
VACMA: Visual Artists and Craft Makers Award 2021 awarded for printmaking development, Highland Print Studio, Inverness
VACMA: Visual Artists and Craft Makers Award, 2020 awarded for new materials and surfaces
This winter, selected group exhibition, Bonhoga Gallery, Shetland Arts, 9 November – 22 December 2019
Dazzled: an exhibition of paintings, prints and watercolours, Da Gaaderie, Shetland Museum and Archives, 11 May – 16 June 2019. Awarded a VACMA: Visual Artists Craft Makers Award from Creative Scotland/Shetland Arts towards exhibition costs.
Shine: a selection of watercolours, Shetland Museum Foyer, 2018
Hav & Himmel (Sea & Sky) exhibition with Mette-Sofie D. Ambeck, Doverodde Kobmandsgard, Hurup Ty, Denmark, 19 maj – 28 juni, 2015
Artist in residence at Limsfjord Centret, Doverodde, Denmark, April – May 2014
Shetland watercolours Bonhoga Gallery Café, Shetland Arts, February to March 2013
Quiet Beauty, solo exhibition of paintings at Jane Fuest Gallery, Alresford, November 2012
Research and projects
Tribute to female artists in my artistic landscape, a current research project.
Habitat Hommage Horizon - themes I developed in relation to my Shetland drawings, paintings and prints
Work in books - sketchbooks, watercolour books, Blue Books, photo albums of the Shetland landscape
100 horizons, a hundred small watercolours of the Shetland horizon, 2024-25
Wandering, an artist’s book created from drawings, colour notes, photographs and watercolours, 2019
Workshops
Collagraph printmaking workshops for Shetland Art Teachers Group, 2024
Exploring watercolour workshop for Hymhus volunteers, Bigton, February 2023
Exploring Watercolour workshop, Creative Lab at Mareel, Lerwick, for Shetland Arts, October 2022
Exploring watercolour workshop, devised and led for the Peerie Shop, Lerwick, November 2019
An artist eye on colour an exhibition curated from the collections at the Shetland Textile Museum, Bod of Gremista, April – October 2019
Watercolour workshops lead tutor in Denmark during residency and exhibition, 2014-2015
Watercolour Club led and developed with colleagues at Winchester School of Art, 2015-2016
Education
BA (Hons) Fine Art Painting 1st Class, Winchester School of Art, 1972-75
Postgraduate Librarianship, North East London Polytechnic, 1980-81
Postgraduate Diploma, History of Art & Design, Winchester School of Art, 1989
MA History of Textiles and Dress, Textile Conservation Centre, 2007
Certificate in Botanical Illustration, Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, awarded with Merit, July 2022
Employment history
Natural History Museum, London, Assistant Librarian, Botany Library 1978-84
Camberwell College of Art Library, London, Deputy Librarian, 1984-86
Winchester School of Art, Head Librarian, 1988-2016
Winchester School of Art, Fine Art Tutor, 2014-16
Volunteer Archivist/Librarian, Shetland Textile Museum, 2019-2024