About Me
I live in Newport, South Wales, and I am a regular visitor back to my childhood home in the South Shropshire Marches; a narrow valley with woodland steeply rising on one side and an Iron Age hill fort on the other.
The proximity of my Newport home to another Celtic hill fort is a source of musing in my suburban surroundings, my windows face out towards the tree covered slopes of ‘y Gaer’, rising above the roof tops.
I have a first-class degree in fine art, and my work has been widely exhibited across the UK and internationally. I am a member of the Women’s Arts Association.
Amdanaf i
Rwy’n byw yng Nghasnewydd, De Cymru, a rwy’n ymwelydd rheolaidd â chartref fy mhlentyndod ym Mers De Swydd Amwythig; dyffryn cul gyda choetir sy’n codi’n serth ar un ochr a bryngaer o’r Oes Haearn ar yr ochr arall.
Mae agosatrwydd fy nghartref yng Nghasnewydd at fryngaer Geltaidd arall yn ffynhonnell fyfyrio yn fy amgylchoedd maestrefol; mae fy ffenestri yn wynebu llethrau’r ‘Gaer’ sydd wedi’u gorchuddio mewn coed, sy’n codi uwch ben y toeon.
Mae gen i radd dosbarth cyntaf mewn celfyddyd gain, ac mae fy ngwaith wedi cael ei arddangos ledled y DU ac yn rhyngwladol. Dwi’n aelod Cymdeithas Celf Menywod.
Art Education
2007-2010 University of Wales, Newport: BA (Hons) Fine Art (1:1)
1991-1992 Bristol Polytechnic: Foundation Certificate in Art and Design
Short Courses
2021 Mapping: Drawing Internal Landscapes: (online) Royal School of Drawing with artist Andrea MacLean
2019 Inspired by Nature, St Ives School of Art. inspired by the work of Wilhelmina Barns-Graham and Barbara Hepworth
Commissions
2021 Book illustration in collaboration with Alan Roderick Astrid and The Girl in the Tangerine Dress
2012 and 2010 Newport Super Dragon
2011 The Gravity Project: Ballet Cymru
Solo Exhibition
2022 Land & Sea: Waterloo Tearoom, Penylan, Cardiff
2018 Out of the Allotment: Cwtsh Community & Arts Centre, Newport
Selected Exhibitions
2024 Antidote: Oriel Canfas, Cardiff
2019 -2024 Spring & Winter shows: Cardiff MADE
2023 10th Anniversary Exhibition: Cwtsh, Newport
2023 Wales Contemporary International Art Competition: Waterfront Art Gallery, Milford Haven
2021 Figurative Art Now: Mall Galleries, London
2019 Open Exhibition: Oriel Crickhowell
2019 Redlake Valley Artists exhibition: Shropshire
2019 Women Outdoors: Theatr Breceiniog
2018 An Expanded View of Drawing: Arts and Education Network, Riverfront, Newport
2014 From Here and There: Drawings From the UK: Elysium Gallery, Swansea (toured to the Clara Hatton Gallery, Colorado State University)
2011 Curatorial Contrasts 2: Bay Art, Cardiff Bay
2011, 2009, 2006 Finalist in Welsh Artist of the Year exhibition: St David’s Hall, Cardiff
2010 University of Glamorgan Female Wales: Purchase Prize Finalist, Oriel y Bont, Pontypridd
