A 68 page drawing celebrating the diversity of The Queue.

Selected/shortlisted for The Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2023

A sketchbook inspired by the queue at Westminster Hall for the public to pay their respects to Queen Elizabeth II

Selected/shortlisted for The Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2023

Sketchbook shortlisted for the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2023

Concertina sketchbook where everyone is trying on a crown. 38 x A6 pages

A drawn collection of dropped and half buried items discovered by a Detectorist with his metal detector. They are mostly trinkets, fallen from car boot fairs held in fields, but he did bring me items from other forays in the countryside as well

I covered this sketchbook in fake grass with a semi- hidden item in it. It seemed appropriate for this 70 page collection of objects found by a Detectorist while looking for ‘treasure’.

A regular record through the changing seasons from my office window which had a view of a section of Otford Station’s platform 2. I worked in this room for 18 months and loved the noise of the trains arriving and leaving.

70 pages in a concertina style sketchbook . My observation of railway passengers over several months waiting for a few minutes before their incoming train whisked them away

Drawn over a month or so, while taking walks through the 160 acre ancient woodland Park, in Flintshire. Directly drawn with black pen and coloured in later, in the visitor centre, while on placement there as Artist in Residence

70 pages in total. I was lucky with the weather during this Spring residency and spent many hours walking and drawing the way ahead.

I set myself the goal to draw as many plants as possible in a three week period of time, that were coming into bloom, on my walks around Wepre Park during my Residency. Swiftly but carefully observed with a black pen. With the help of the park rangers, back at the visitor centre I tried to identify all the species.

This was made in late autumn high up in the Welsh mountains, with pockets of frosts. I remember only being able to drawn for short bursts of time.

I was able to draw a lot of wild and cultivated species in the twelve acre plot, with house and garden before it was sold. There were only a few weeks to achieve this. I hope it still reminds the family of what a wonderful location it was.

My brass Lady Bell collection is growing. This collection has a small selection of them. I draw them over and over again in other sketchbooks and for use in making printed images

Just a small selection of some of my sketchbooks that focus on documenting daily life including holidays. A sketchbook is the first item to go in the suitcase.

A holiday drawing at the Krabi Resort in Thailand. Nothing better than a few hours on the beach with a sketchbook!

While everyone else is soaking up the sun (or checking their phones) I’m sitting in the shade with my sketch book.

Thailand

Original print based on the drawings from the Victoria and Albert Museum (Staffordshire pottery in the Ceramics Gallery)

Selected for the Woolwich Contemporary Art Fair 2021

Selected for the Hastings Museum Open 2020

Victoria and Albert Museum

A day’s drawing in the Prints and Drawings Room at the Victoria and Albert Museum (Durer etching) with The Royal Drawing School

Based on the legend of why the Tulip Tree leaf has no tip. The story goes that Eve grabbed at the leaves on leaving the Garden of Eden.

Royal Academy

Paper Trail in Maidstone Museum. A project run by appletye.org featuring paper made between 1864 and 2018. Artists were sent a small piece of paper and asked to use it creatively with reference to the year it was manufactured. Mine was 1950, the year that Andy Pandy was first shown on television.

I saw a wooden house in a museum in Bangkok, not for dolls but mice. This is an imaginary collection of houses inhabited by mice. original print Edition of 3

Exhibited at Mostyn Llandudno 2019

I drew a few sketches of the costumes in the Women’s Museum in Hanoi in Vietnam. This is my impression of what I saw, developed later in my studio. It measures 103 x 78 cm

Inspired by contemporary costume designs in the Women’s Museum in Hanoi size 103 x 78.

A series of 4

FCI Ltd (UK manufacturers of garments for the fashion industry) Savar, Dhaka.

To personalize this picture, there are are a dozen golf balls disguised as frogspawn hidden in the composition.

A stencil-based print (edition of 4) based on items in the Victoria and Albert Ceramics gallery. Selected for The Hastings Museum and Gallery International Open 2020 and The Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair 2021

Gwledd Conwy Feast (Food Festival) North Wales. Commissioned to advertise the annual food festival

Relief print. Edition of 5 based on my collection of British and other European brass bells in the shape of well-to-do ladies or national dress. Purchased by Västra Götaland Regional Council Sweden in 2019.

In the Portfolio Collection of The Royal Cambrian Academy

Printed from individual drawings on card. Selected for the Wales Contemporary 2019 and exhibited at Mall Galleries, London

FCI Ltd (UK manufacturers of garments for the fashion industry) Savar, Dhaka.

Private Client commission

Wetherspoons (original artwork commission).

Wetherspoons (original artwork commission).

Brochure illustration for Manchester Adult Social Care’s Dignity in Care Campaign (‘it started with a daisy….’)

Proposed CD cover for the band 'Uncle John and the Germans'.

Commissioned by the charity Paintings in Hospitals (Wales) for loans to NHS hospitals.

Private Client

Several Shoals have been commissioned or bought for interiors, each square is unique as each fish is individually created, no two are exactly the same.

The Hilton Hotel Prague (commissioned by IndigoArt)

Hand printed edition using stencils and rollers. A3 image size

Edition of 8. Hand Printed with stencils and rollers.

Stencil and monoprint. Edition of 3

image size 50 x 50 cm

Stencil and Monoprint

Edition of 3

image size 50 x 50 cm

Selected for Turner Contemporary Open 2021, Margate

From a drawing made in the Ceramics Gallery at the Victoria and Albert Museum

Variable Edition of 4

Selected for Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair 2021

Variable Edition, five in the series

Selected for Wales Contemporary 2019 (Mall Galleries)

This edition (10) was made during the Covid restrictions when missing family and friends was uppermost in our thinking. It was my contribution to 30Works30Days an Artquest online project. 30 x 30cm

Edition of 6. 38cm x 38cm

An image based on a collection of horse brasses. each brass individually printed by hand

image size 38cm x 38cm sq

Edition of 6

Edition of 3. 38cm x 38cm

inspired by a wooden structure that children kept mice in, in a museum in Bangkok

Edition of three

Edition of 5. 18cm x 53cm

56 x 56cm. Edition of 3.

Edition of 5. 22cm x 22cm

Edition of 3. 15cm x 15cm

Edition of 4. 38cm x 38cm

Edition of 3. 38cm x 38cm

Edition of 4. 15cm x 15cm

Edition of 3. 53cm x 53cm

Edition of 20. Relief and Stencil Print.Hand printed from individually cut card printing plates

Edition of 12. 50 x 52cm

A Queue drawn from the front and the back. I started this book during the time that Queen Elizabeth II was lying in state at Westminster Abbey.

Selected/shortlisted for the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2023

Drawing with coloured pencils based on a collection of dolls and toys wearing paper hats.

Selected for The Cheltenham Illustration Awards 2023/2024

Instead of nipping into M&S to buy some undies during Lockdown I had to purchase new knickers online. I typed in Black Pants and was amused by the variety of styles and outlets I could choose from. Drawing from the screen became an absorbing activity while confined to my flat in the winter months of the pandemic.

Selected for the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2021

Drawing from the screen became an absorbing activity while confined to my flat in the winter months of the pandemic. Having made a drawing based on online shopping (for new black pants) I chose the subject of underpants as a companion piece of work. I had no idea there would be so much variety

Selected for the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2021

Drawn just after the media coverage of the Queue when members of the public were paying their respects following the death of Queen Elizabeth

An interpretation of the game often played at birthday parties when children lie very still, pretending to be dead (or sleeping) lions

Although this looks at first glance like a gentle pastoral scene there are hidden hazards threatening to disturb the peace, including an escaped convict, a mad bunny, a giant spider….and more.

An idea based on Spike Milligan’s poem about a baby sardine seeing its first submarine…’it’s only a tin full of people’

Drawing, pencil on paper

The Ladies of Llangollen are joined by various other characters enjoying the fragrance of the Spring garden

Pencil drawing (43 x 43cm)

Pencil drawing (46 x 46cm)

Pencil drawing (46 x 51cm)

Drawing, pencil on paper

A drawing of plastic toys and ornaments

Drawing

A collection of masks drawn from online searches

A drawing was added every day in the Advent season, leading up to Christmas Day. Each square is 5cm x 5cm. The goal I set myself was to make each drawing based on an online image of the festive season. This is in contrast to my more usual method of direct observation.

A coloured drawing (gouache and watercolour) of about 70 black items and objects from around my home and studio.

Selected for the RWS/Sunday Times Watercolour Competition 2008

A coloured drawing (gouache and watercolour) of white items and objects collected or found around my home and studio

Lovely wool, destined to be a big blanket for my granddaughter, who is now a teenager. I’m hoping she’ll take it with her one day to uni.

I'm pretty sure that my old teddy is the same bear as Grayson Perry's Alan Measles, a distant cousin perhaps, and not as ‘well-loved’ as AM. Given to me in the early 60s, so definitely a similar age

A chance for a good study of a beautiful bird (on a newspaper which happened to be advertising Cats the musical)

Oddly, I can remember the episode of The Archers I was listening to at the time

Being Artist in Residence for the day

Drawn in the Victoria and Albert Museum

A special gift arrived in the post, pretty shells including a sand dollar wrapped in pink tissue

Quickly drawing while have a catch-up natter

brought home to draw from a tea party

A short but memorable stay on Tresco

fast asleep on the sofa

The Ladies of Llangollen (Eleanor Butler and Sarah Ponsonby) were well known for their diaries containing anecdotes and list of household expenses while residing in Plas Newydd in North Wales from 1780 – 1831. A Denbighshire Heritage Service grant enabled their written observations to be interpreted in a contemporary visual diary for a month long residency.

The former home of the Ladies of LLangollen.

A visual diary project for a month’s residency at the house and gardens

A residency researching the lives of The Ladies of Llangollen

Documenting the lifecycle of a silk moth from ‘egg to thread’ took place on the dining room table.
The silkworms were meticulously observed on their metamorphic process, in detailed drawings.
The project was supported by The Arts Council of Wales with Lottery funding, and first shown in the Joseph Banks room at Chester Zoo.

From the ‘Spinning a Yarn’ series of drawings telling the story of silk

A drawing from the ‘Spinning a Yarn’ project, observing and recording the process of making silk

Arts Council of Wales Lottery Project Grant to study the process of producing silk, from the eggs to cocoons to silk thread.

A two year (part-time) placement at Chester Zoo culminated in an exhibition called Scratching the Surface. at Theatr Clwyd in Mold. The title made reference to printmaking techniques and the challenge of choosing what to concentrate on in such a fascinating environment. Funding and support was provided by Chester City Council, Chester Zoo and The Arts Council of England.

Artist in Residence for the day

Drawing day in the store

Ten days were spent camping in the grounds of an orphanage, near Johannesburg, South Africa where groups of young volunteers from the UK were building houses for the community. The project was recorded in a series of directly observed drawings of their physical and emotional experiences.

Funding was by donations and sponsorship.

Key Stage 2 Printmaking and Poetry project, using a wide variety of printmaking processes to make collective class artwork

Three colour printmaking. Oil based inks and stencils

Primary School printmaking residency based on poetry (Riddles and Rhymes). Printing from feathers and monoprint using carbon paper

A community printing project, using collage, black ink and plastic glue spreaders

Hand printed with rollers, colour relief print with card plates

Workshop for Art Group

Printmaking residency in primary schools. Origami boats, texture prints and carbon paper prints of people (feeling queasy!)

AS Printmaking project using oil based inks, stencils and textures through the portable A3 press

Primary school printmaking residency. Simple card collograph printmaking

Key Stage 1 and 2 school history residency project. Printed using oil based inks from pupils’ drawings on card printing plates. Total of 8 sections illustrating the schools’ 100 year history

AS Printmaking (textiles) Printmaking on shiny fabric using card printing plates and thread

Printmaking Love Spoons at FE college. Oil based inks and simple collograph

Black ink printing plates, drawing with cotton buds to remove ink. Printed on Rainbow paper

Printing from bubble wrap and sticker waste, with carbon paper prints of bees

Primary school project. Printmaking using polystyrene squares that have been drawn on, yellow ink on coloured paper

GCSE Printmaking  Animals. 150 mm sq. Oil based inks and stencils with card printing plates through the press

multi coloured layered print using card shapes and acetates. Senior School printmaking project

Key Stage 1 Animals Black ink on Acetate with textures printed onto Rainbow paper

GCSE Printmaking. Oil based inks on 150mm card, stencils.

Key Stage 2  monoprints collage (round objects and circles) made from printed papers.

GCSE Printmaking using acetates, card and oil based inks

Key Stage 2 Nature printmaking project, in various out of school locations

NSPCC Young people’s printmaking event

Special Needs Printmaking project on family pets