B.A. (Hons) Fine Art: Painting at Loughborough University – 1995. M.A. Art History at Nottingham University – 2000. I have taught Art History for the Open University and Painting and Drawing at the Workers’ Educational Association. I am a member of the Academy of Higher Education. My current work falls into two categories: oil paintings and ceramics. The oil paintings explore the water surface of the River Soar. They are a fusion of observations through the seasons committed to memory, plus letting oil paint express itself as paint as well as water. Other large oil paintings explore a completely different terrain, for example the Arabian desert. I make big pots and my glaze recipes are unique to me in that they use wood ash from tree prunings from our garden and granite dust from Lafarge quarry in Mountsorrel. The ceramic bowl forms are primarily created as garden sculptures. They are organic in nature and sit well with foliage and other garden textures.