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Born: Northampton 1961
Art Education: Leicester Polytechnic 1983
2:1 BA(Hons) Fine Art Sculpture
Hertfordshire College of Art and Design 1985
Postgraduate Diploma in Art Therapy

Employment : Employed as a full-time sculptor 1987 -1997
(Stoke on Trent figurine industry)
I am a full-time gallery artist, living and working on the edge of the Peak District National Park. My figurative sculptures are in a bold and semi-abstract style, with graceful sweeping curves and simplified details.

The main subjects of my current work are re-interpretations of European folk tales such as Red Riding Hood and the Wolf. My version of this cautionary classic has a contemporary twist, she is presented not as an innocent victim, but as a confident femme-fatale.

There is often an element of dark humour in my work, nothing is as it first appears and nothing can be taken for granted. I use children’s stories as the vehicle to explore the universal themes raised in terms of adult-oriented concerns; love and jealousy, duplicity and trust, all usually bittersweet in nature.