Curriculum Vitae.
Exhibitions and residencies
Sharing paintings and prints, exhibition of the Shetland Snow series, mixed media paintings, Mareel, Lerwick Shetland, April – June 2025
VACMA: Visual Arts and Craft Makers Award, from Creative Scotland/Shetland Arts, 2025
Edinburgh Printmakers, February 2023-25, developing printmaking and making new editions of collagraph and monotype prints
Shetland Christmas Fair, Shetland Arts and Crafts, November 2022-24
Open Studio, Bigton, 2022-2025
Underneath, a community exhibition at Hymhus, Bigton, Shetland, 2024
Atelier de la Rose, Montcabrier, France, June 2023, May 2024, artist residencies
Waddered, a community exhibition at Hymhus, Bigton, Shetland 2022
Bonhoga Christmas, selected group exhibition at Bonhoga, Shetland Arts, October – December 2022
Pictures for spring, The Kergord Hatchery Bookshop, Shetland April – May 2022
Research – National Library of Scotland Edinburgh, Inverness Museum and Art Gallery, Reading Room and Print Room at the Museum of Modern Art, Royal Botanic Gardens Edinburgh, 2021-2025
One hundred miniature horizons, 2021-2025
Blue Book, a book of watercolours painted at The Chapel, Muckle Roe, Shetland, 2021-22
VACMA: Visual Artists and Craft Makers Award 2021 printmaking project including new collagraph and monotype prints, Highland Print Studio, Inverness
Visit to Sweden – Stockholm and Jokkmokk Winter Market, Lapland including to Sami Museum, February 2020
Shetland horizons, watercolour book, painted during Covid lockdown, 2020
VACMA: Visual Artists and Craft Makers Award, 2020 towards 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. Received a VACMA: Visual Artists Craft Makers Award from Creative Scotland/Shetland Arts
Shine: a selection of watercolours, Shetland Museum Foyer, 2018
30: celebrating 30 years at Winchester School of Art, Winchester Gallery, 2016
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
Artist residency at The Booth, Scalloway, Shetland, June 2010
Projects and workshops
Collagraph printmaking workshops for Shetland Art Teachers Group, 2024
Mini-Library Project for Shetland Textile Museum completed 2024
Christmas card making workshop, Creative Lab for Shetland Arts, Mareel, November 2023
Exploring watercolour workshop for Hymhus volunteers, Bigton, February 2023
Exploring Watercolour workshop, Creative Lab at Mareel, Lerwick, for Shetland Arts, October 2022
Independent printmaking self-organised project at the Highland Print Studio, 2021
Project Manager for Shetland Textile Museum website redesign, completed July 2021
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
Artist talks at solo exhibition Dazzled, Shetland Museum, Lerwick 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
In the loop, knitting past, present and future - an international interdisciplinary academic conference 2008–2018, with exhibitions, public talks, publications, and student projects
Artists Books Collection, building a collection, curating exhibitions, writing articles, organising events, giving public talks, 1986-2016
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, Deputy Librarian, 1986-1988
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