Projects and workshops:

Artist working with Longridge Youth And Community Centre to create an orienteering trail through a park in Longridge using the trees within the park as reference on clay tiles and also bronze post tops.

Artist in residence in Tor View School, Haslingdon through Creative Partnerships creating a visual and tactile map of the school in clay and tactile trails around the school using ‘objects of reference’ from their timetable.

Artist working with the Fierce Festival in Birmingham on the Feed Me Allotment in Birmingham. Working with Colmore Infant School to produce ceramic bowls based on vegetables grown on the allotment that will be used for the final feast.

Artist working with Fierce Festival in Birmingham to produce two brick carved thrones for the Feed Me feast. Working with Colmore Junior School, Kings Heath, Birmingham.

Artist in Residence at Witton Park High School, Blackburn working with Gifted and Talented on two brick benches based on the flora and fauna found within the schools settings.

Site specific clay work for Fairfield Nursery with the children who attended the art workshops based on ‘The Very Hungary Caterpillar’, Oswaldthwistle.

Artist working with Creative Partnerships and Folly to create an environment of Accrington of the future with the children of Peel Park Primary School.

Artist working with the Friends of Queens Park, Burnley on brick way markers with the children of St. Peters Primary School, Burnley.

Artist in Residence at Achland Burghley School, London working with various years introducing clay to the curriculum.

Artist working with Surestart, Bacup to produce with the visitors and users of the centre six mosaics for the newly designed garden area at the back of the centre.

Artist in school at Whitefield Infants to produce four mosaics based on the season working with Year 2 for the wildlife garden

Lead artist on Land Project for Burnley. Working with Schools to produce brick way markers from Towneley Hall to Crown Point. A brick contour map of the area and a mini Panoptican of a coke kiln on the site of an old Brick works.

Lead Artist working with Young Explorers to create educational display boards in clay for a newly developed Nature Reserve in Fleetwood, Lancashire.

Working with Creative Partnerships within two schools Moorhead High School, Accrington and Tor View Special School, Haslingdon as part of their application to be hub schools within Creative partnerships East Lancashire.

Drop-in brick carving workshops at the Woodland Festival, Towneley Hall, Burnley.

Mosaic project with Sacred Heart Primary School, Colne. Using mosaic to tie images of the school into a wildlife area within the school grounds.

Pop art soft sculptures in clay working with Y10 at Darwen Moorland High School.

Working with teachers in conjunction with the ‘Imagine’ touring exhibition to give them more confidence in the handling of clay and also making textures from just about everything to create landscape vessels. Blackburn Museum and Art Gallery and Mid Pennine Arts, Burnley.

Working with five different schools Tockholes Primary, The Redemma, Daisyfield, Brookhouse and Griffin Park. All Primary Schools in Blackburn during Blackburn with Darwen Arts Week on various themes from William Morris tiles at Tockholes Primary to insects and butterflies at Brookhouse in different clays and finishes

Various clay workshops with children through the school from thumb pot fish with Y1 to Aztec sunstones with Y5 during Arts Week at Lord Street Primary School, Colne.

Introductory clay workshops with Y3 at Great Harwood Primary School making mini beasts and working with Gifted and Talented at the school on their own Pop Art wall pieces.

Working with Darwen Moorland on a landscape project for ‘Imagine’ the Arteach touring exhibition. Linking my work with the work produced from the landscape surrounding the school. Looking at layers with in their surroundings and creating textured vessels and also three porcelain light pieces.

February Half term workshops at Blackburn Museum and Art Gallery working with the collections as inspiration. Workshops were aimed at 5-8yrs and 8-11yrs working with clay to produce their own coins, Egyptian artefacts, etc.

Artist working with Barden Junior School to produce clay ‘Coats of Arms’ for each class of the juniors. Each class designed their own emblem using heraldry as a starting point referencing the work they do in class including projects within different subjects; these designs will be displayed above each classroom door.

• Adult Education tutor at Nelson and Colne College working within the art department providing Open College courses and also ‘Explore your Potential’ workshops for the Learning Support department.

• Bury Arts and Craft Adult Education Tutor providing pottery courses for adult and also Technician support for the department.

• Artist working with CABE on ‘My Perfect Town’ project, across East Lancashire. Working in schools with Key Stage 2 pupils who are affected by Elevate, the Housing Market Renewal Pathfinder to ask the question of what would make their perfect town. Results will be used to produce a Calendar to be distributed to schools and key stakeholders across the Pathfinder area.

• Workshop leader at Witton Country Park, Blackburn to produce a collaborative piece with participants to mark the start of the Witton Country Park Sculpture Trail.

• Edenfield Mosaic project. Working with the community to design and produce a mosaic hop scotch to be placed in the Memorial Gardens in Edenfield.

• Pendle way markers project. Working with Whitefield Primary School to produce brick way markers and notice boards along the Leeds Liverpool Canal.

• Workshop leader on the UR Space project spanning Pendle and Hyndburn to produce a fantasy village with children aged 5 – 12 to be exhibited in Waterside, Colne.

• Gifted and Talented clay workshops, Our Lady of St John Arts College, Blackburn.

• Celebratory Vessels Workshop leader Platform Gallery, Clitheroe. Two-day clay workshop with Yr.1 making creatures from 'Under the Sea' to decorate the classroom toilet walls St Johns Primary , Nelson.

• Project Coordinator for Art Satellites for 2003 and the second Art Satellites in 2004.

• Raku workshop at Cannon Slade High School, Bolton.

• Workshop leader for the production of a ceramic Jubilee mural with Bolton by Bowland School. Workshop leader for the Sensory Garden Project at Coldwell Activity Centre, Southfield.

• After schools Art club leader, Bradley Primary School, Nelson.

• Workshop Leader for schools/community group in Pendle working with the Installation 'Ford' by Welfare State International.

• Park Arts Week workshop leader. Basic clay workshops produced work in reaction to the surroundings of Witton Country Park in Clay.

• 'Feeding the Dragon Project' with the Horse and Bamboo Theatre company.

• Year of the Artist project in Witton Country Park, Blackburn with fellow artist India Campbell Ceramic fossils of Cross Hill, a commission for the Platform Gallery, Clitheroe.

• Artist in Residence at Giggleswick School Giggleswick, near Settle.

• Artist in Residence at Abraham Guest High School in Wigan Lead artist for LAN (Lancashire Artists Network) meetings in the Hyndburn area. Organising and chairing local artists meetings.

• Workshop leader for taster sessions on a two-day 'communication' Day at Burnley Mechanics.
  Clay workshop leader for Burnley Mechanics during half-term Arts week.

• Community Artist at the Taylor Rehabilitation Unit, Whelley Hospital, Wigan. Artist in Residence at Mabs Cross infant and Junior School, Wigan.

• Drop in workshops at the Turnpike Gallery in Leigh; Groundwork Trust, Rossendale; Wigan Arts Festival; and Hyndburn Arts Festival.

• INSET with Primary teachers in Wigan introducing various experimental drawing techniques.

• Art advisors to Leigh Careers Office working in high schools using art to promote GCSE subjects around the area.

• Artist in Residence at Drumcroon Education Art Centre.
  

Skills:

I have taught a wide variety of people from Year 1's to A level and been involved in a number of community projects instigated by myself and with other artists or art related organisations. I also have experience working with disability arts groups using a variety of media from experimental drawing techniques to basic clay workshops. Clay workshops have included pressed and incised techniques into slabs to create a large scale wall piece or basic thumb pot techniques to create individual elements made by all participants.

My ceramic skills include hand building; coiling and slab work; Brick carving; plasterwork; glaze technology; slip-dipped fabric and other objects, mosaic work and brick carving. I have experience of various firing techniques including smoke firing; reduction firing and raku. I also have experience building experimental kilns, using paper and sawdust to fire and constructing my own raku kilns.

From my degree in Design Crafts my technical skills other than ceramics covers a broad range of media. I have experience in using willow for sculptural work and basket making. My textile skills involve screen-printing fabric and clay, felt making, weaving, machine and hand embroidery and batik work.