I am a visual artist...

I hold a BA Combined Hons Degree in English and Fine Art from Exeter University, a Diploma in Arts Management from Birkbeck College, London and a Diploma in Fine Art Ceramics from City Lit / City of London University.

For the past three decades I have worked in London and the South East as a freelance exhibition planner / curator - a hugely creative and rewarding role which has brought me into contact with a multitude of diverse and talented artists and makers many of whom have become close friends over the years.

My current workspace is a light, bright, tranquil studio at my home in rural Kent. I use my time to read, research and take courses in order to develop and widen my own artistic practice.

I am interested in all aspects of visual culture – particularly fine and applied arts. I enjoy immersing myself in nature - the countryside and woods that surround my home - as well as coastal landscapes to which I find myself repeatedly and magnetically drawn.

I find...

inspiration in the arts in their many and varied forms; from fine art to folk art and from classic novels and contemporary fiction to fairy tales. Song lyrics, lines from poems or film scripts are often ‘prompts’ for my work.

I collect...

appealing items in bric-a-brac shops and both natural and man-made objects from my environment. Many of these objects fire my imagination and feed - directly or indirectly - into my work.

I make...

temporary, three-dimensional ‘curations’ from ‘mud-larked’ objects as well as collages from magazines, books, found papers and ephemera.

My ‘curations’ are an opportunity to work in a random, spontaneous and playful manner to create new and unexpected forms.

Each small ‘assemblage’ is photographed before being dismantled into its component parts for reuse. The resulting images can be printed to order as high quality, limited edition art prints and are available on request.

I use the same ‘cut and paste’ random association method to play with ideas and images for paper collage. The majority of my work is figurative and involves story telling.

I record...

my creative ‘musings’ - as well as travels through time and space - photographically. I am interested in exploring the role of photography and photographic editing in reinterpreting objects and creating alternative narratives.

A selection of images appear in my Instagram - @paperclaygirl.

I write...

from time to time about my own work, that of other artists or subjects that interest me.  You can view some of these pieces in the Journal section of this website.