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I have always painted, but am largely self - taught, apart from a year at the Ruskin School of Drawing. I have exhibited widely for several decades, mostly in Scotland and the North of England, and have worked colaboratively with other artists over many years. My teaching and workshops are also a part of my creative work, and I'm as equally at home with groups of children and teenagers as with adults.
Exhibitions
2010 Moot Hall, Hexham
2010 The Allendale Bakery, Catton
2010 The McGill-Duncan Gallery, Castle Douglas
2009 The Burnlaw Centre
2009 The McGill-Duncan Gallery, Castle Douglas
2008 The Garden Station, Langley
2008 Glengorm Gallery, Mull
2007 Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust, Caerlaverock (shared)
2007 Pebbles Gallery, Allendale
2007 Burnlaw Centre (shared)
2006 The Garden Station, Langley (shared)
2005 Burnlaw Centre
2005 Queen's Hall Gallery, Hexham
2004 The Garden Station,  Langley (shared)
2004 Upfront Gallery, Penrith  (shared)
2003 Open studio exhibition,  Burnlaw Centre, Northumberland
2002-3 Aros Centre Gallery,  Portree (shared)
2002-5 Lomond Gallery, Fife  (shared)
2001  Open studio exhibition,  Burnlaw Centre
2000  Upfront Gallery,  Penrith
1999   John Stevens Fine Art, Nayland
1994   Corncob Gallery,  Hexham
1993   Corncob Gallery,  Hexham
1990   Queen's Hall, Hexham
1989   Rothbury Gallery
Artist's Residencies
2006     Artist's Residency, Wildfowl and Wetland Trust, Caerlaverock
2005     Visiting Artist, Cancer Wards, Newcastle General Hospital
Teaching / Art facilitation
2005    "Adventurous watercolour" courses at  the Garden Station,  Northumberland 
2005     Singing workshop, Cancer Bridge Hexham
2002-4   Craft and Art coordinator at Family Summer schools in Yorkshire
2000-5   Teaching watercolour painting at Old Chapel Arts Centre, Northumberland
1980-2008 Numerous  short-term  arts projects, mostly with youth groups, at Burnlaw Centre. These include singing workshops, mural painting,environmental sculpture, crafts and painting.