About

“Don’t make your picture like a picture, make it like nature. The result will be just the same, but it will be a new picture”.
The Art Spirit by Robert Henri

It all started when…

I love to make art. Creativity and making things has been a huge part of my life since I was a child.

After a few years of office work (not my forte!) I became a fabric retailer and knitwear designer. I later studied fashion and textiles at UWE Bristol, and afterwards taught fashion and textiles part-time. It was during this period I began to develop my practice using stitch and mixed media.

My favourite artist is the late Mary Fedden, her work remains fresh and contemporary in my eyes and her still life pieces and use of flat perspective have frequently inspired my own practice.

For many years now I’ve been working mainly in acrylics, painting still life pieces, little houses, landscapes and seascapes. My work is naïve or abstract in style with no intention of being truly representational. For me it’s more about my perception of places and objects as I try to capture the way I feel about a subject rather than express a visual reality.

Colour is important to me, and I love ceramics, birds, trees and nature in general – and my love of the natural world, often mixed with domestic paraphernalia and interiors – and my own emotional and internal view of life, is what often comes through in my work.

My home and studio overlook the lovely Worcestershire Teme Valley, where I live with my husband John, our dear Airedale George, and Mabel our beautiful Romanian rescue dog.

C A R E E R   H I S T O R Y
2006 to date
Self-employed artist.
2007 to 2012
Part-time Textiles lecturer,  School of Art & Design, Worcester College of Technology
1998 to 2007
Lecturer in HND Costume and ND Textiles.
Tutor in Adult Education courses: Exploring Textile Art, Dressmaking and Soft Furnishing Workshops at Worcester College of Technology
1994
Spring knitwear collection for Mulberry
1984 to 1992
Knitwear Designer, trading as Gilly Moon, retailing in UK, Germany, Switzerland and Australia.
1979 to 1999
Partner in Just Sew, Malvern, trading in wool and dress fabrics - later  re-named Just So, trading in gifts and greetings cards.

E D U C A T I O N
2017 to 2018
MA in Contemporary Crafts, Hereford College of Arts
2004 to 2006
City & Guilds Certificate in Design and Craft (Embroidery)
1999 to 2000
City & Guilds Further Education & Adult Education Teachers’ Certificate
1992 to 1995
BA (Hons) Fashion & Textile Design, University of the West of England, Bristol
1991 to 1992
BTEC National Diploma in General Art & Design, The School of Art & Design, Barbourne, Worcester.