About Me
I currently live and work in Bangor Co. Down.
I have been using pencil and paint to explore the complexity of life and humanity for as long as I can remember. Although my working life took me in a different direction, working with humanity in particular children, enabling them to deal with life complexities.
The one thread that kept me connected to my true self was the use of pencil and paint using it within my various work settings. Over the years attending art course that continued to enhance and hone my skills.That thread has now become my working life and that different direction experience of humanity in all its shapes and forms. In particular children, their connection to nature and other living things, their ability to float between realms of fantasy and reality and their roles in folklore and faerietales.
When it comes to art making, for me, it is about breaking down then reconstructing the desires and fears of humanity through narrative portraiture ,paintings and more recently ceramics. Playing with texture and colour, layering up to create movement and depth to portray unspoken human emotions.
C.V.
Developing the Portriature 2013-2014
SERC Bangor Foundition Dipolma Ceramics distinction 2016
SERC Bangor
Exhibitions
Andrews Gallery Womens International Day 2012
Titanic Belfast group exhibition
Malone House Ards Art Collective 2015
Belfast group exhibition
The Curve Serc Bangor group 2016
Bangor Library exhibition
The Space Meet the Maker 2016
N.I. Tourist Board group exhibition
Newtownards
Haptik Cafe Cracked Ceramics 2016
Artspace Gallery group exhibition
Newtownards
RUA Annual exhibition short listed 2016
Ards Art Centre Cracked Ceramics 2017
Newtownards group exhibition
Walled Garden Bangor ForM Sculpture Exhibition 2017
RUA Annual exhibition short listed 2017
Walled Garden Bangor ForM Sculpture Exhibition 2018
RUA Annual Exhibition Uluster museum Belfast 2018
IDA award 2017
Chimera Gallery Mullingar Ireland Exhibiting and sales
Synergy Studios Newcastle Northern Ireland Exhibiting and sales
Puffin Gallery Ballycastle Northern Ireland Exhibiting and sales
ceramic sculptures held in private collections