I am an art therapist based in Sheffield, England. There are three strands to my work. I use art to foster my own healing. I share the methods via workshops with people who want to use creative making to manage chronic and long term conditions. I also do research on how art promotes health and wellbeing in community settings. As is true for many artists with dual careers, my personal art practice ticked away in the background, In 2020, I seized an opportunity that arose out of illness to move to full time art practice.
Exhibitions & Residencies
2026 International Watercolour Masters, Telford
2026 Fronteer Gallery, Stone
2026, Bloc Projects , Members Open
2025 Fronteer Open
2025 Fronteer Gallery, Wild Landscapes.
2025 The Art House Open
2024 Fronteer Gallery, Flowers
2024 Fronteer Galery, Blanket of Stars
2024, Fronteer Gallery, Tiny Landscapes
2024 Back to Basics Residency, Arteles Creative Centre, Finland
2024 Open Up Sheffield Studios
2023 Silence, Awareness, Existence Residency, Arteles Creative Centre, Finland
2023 Art from the Pandemic, Gage Gallery, Sheffield
2023 Open Up Sheffield Studios
2023 People and Place, Kreiva Gallery, Bridlington
2022 Frontier Open Exhibition, Sheffield
2022. Fronteer Gallery, The Environment
2021 Great Sheffield Art Show, Sheffield
Education & Employment
1974 BA Psychology, York University, Toronto
1976 Registered Art Therapist, American Art Therapy Association
1975 Director, Arts Centre, The Maples Residential Treatment Centre, British Columbia
1978 Art Therapist, Farnborough Hospital, NHS England
1984 Masters in Social Work, Community Organisation Management & Planning, Boston University, USA
1984 Director, HIV/AIDS Programme, Massachusetts Department of Public Health, USA
1992 Deputy Director and Research Fellow, Public Health, University of Hull, England
1995 Academic Director, University of Oxford, England
2005 Academic Director, Bergen University College, Norway
2009 Reader, Knowledge Mobilisation, University of Sheffield, England
2020 Consultant, Public Health and Community Development
2020 Art2Life Academy