Freelance Artist

September 2007 - currently Art Development Officer/Artist in Residence at Art-Co, a Level Best not-for-profit Social Enterprise, The Dacon Trust Ltd, Great Tey, Colchester, Essex
2006-2007 Primary School MDA
2005-6 Trainer
CSV Media, Ipswich,Dreamweaver 7 and Photoshop 8 CS to Dupskill students and C&G 7500 Diploma in Media Techniques: Level 3 Unit 12: Web Page Design

Teaching Qualifications
City & Islington College, London, EC1 March 1996
GNVQ Assessor Training GNVQ Art & Design.

City Lit, Holborn, London, WC1 1994
City & Guilds 7307 Stage One,
Further & Adult Education Teachers Certificate

Teaching Experience
May - June 2007 Frinton on Sea Primary School, Art and Maths: Finding patterns in chaos.

July 2005 CSV Clubhouse, Ipswich, Suffolk
C & G 7500 Diploma in Media Techniques: Level 3 Unit 12: Web Page DesignMarch - July 2005 CSV Clubhouse, Ipswich, Suffolk
Web Page Design in Macromedia Dreamweaver on a PC (Microsoft Windows XP) CSV Clubhouse, Ipswich, Suffolk

March - July 2005 CSV Clubhouse, Ipswich, SuffolkEditing Digital Images: Introduction to Photoshop Techniques on a PC (Microsoft Windows XP)

December 2004 CSV Clubhouse, Ipswich, Suffolk MacromediaMX4 Dreamweaver for Beginners

November 2004 Harlow Arts CD Cover/Disc Design Workshop, Harlow Old Town, EssexSept-2004-March 2005 duckegg.org
Painting Class, Walton-on-the-Naze, Essex

2003 Colchester Borough Council
Artist in Residence for National AIDS DAY,

June 2002,2003,2004 Frinton-on-Sea County Primary School, Essex.
Talk & workshops : School Alphabet/ “What an Artist Does” /Clay Cats
Art & Grounds Week, Sets for “Cinders”.

2001 Firstsite @ The Minories Art Gallery, Colchester
Half-Term Workshop for children re. “Trauma” Exhibition” : 3D plaster & paint reliefs

2001-to date duckegg.org set up art consultancy offering art projects tailor made for individuals and organisations.

2000 – 01 Connecting Cultures Placementee at Bromley by Bow Healthy Living Centre, London E3.
Artist in a health setting generating insights into the experience of artists in such employment environments for under graduate syllabus for Art students. Worked with a trainee health net-worker using art as a focus to develop her confidence, educational potential and ability to provide cross-cultural assistance on health matters to ethnic minority groups. An initiative of the Colchester Institute.

1997 to 2000 Career break to focus on raising a family.

1996 to 1996 The Chequer Centre, City & Islington College, London, EC1
Tutor Grade 5
Oil painting for adults.

1990 to 1996 The Chequer Centre, City & Islington College, London, EC1
Tutor Grade 5
Painting and drawing, mixed level adults, LOCF accredited.

1992 to 1994 Chequer Centre, City & Islington College, London, EC1
Tutor Grade 5
Art for older people. Created stage backdrops for music show at Sadler's Wells Theatre, London, during 1992 the European Year of Older People, as part of our regular class work.

1988 to 1993 Workshops on Demand, 49 Ellington Street, Islington, London
Art Tutor
Co-member of six artists committed to working with disadvantaged groups and implementing equal opportunities within the art-workshop arena. We shared administration, fund-raising and teaching. The workshops resulted in the exhibition of work by our clients in art galleries and libraries.

1990 Whitechapel Art Gallery. Oil painting and reminiscence with pensioners in conjunction with "Arshile Gorky", work toured.

1989 Whitechapel Art Gallery, London. Photocopy collage using reminiscences. Pensioners.

1989 Serpentine Gallery, London. Workshop with homeless adults to build a giant pinhole camera and darkroom with wheel chair access. Work toured.

1988 Haggerston Centre, Hackney, London. Sculpture. Adults with
learning difficulties.


1987 Shape & London Borough of Hackney, Space Studios, Belsham Street, Hackney Painting workshops for adults with learning difficulties.

1992 to 1992 Whitechapel Art Gallery, London E1
Artists' workshop
Painting workshops in conjunction with "Richard Diebenkorn". Primary, Secondary GCSE and adults. Life drawing for GCSE students.
1991 to 1991 Chequer Centre, Islington Adult Education, London, EC1
Tutor
Life drawing, watercolour and mixed level painting for adults

1988 to 1988 Newham Community College, East Ham, London
Sessional Tutor, Fine Art Dept. Foundation
One-to-one studio-based tutorials to art foundation students.

1987 to 1987 Peterborough General Hospital, Peterborough, Cambridgeshire
Printmaker in Residence
Motivate and instruct clients in psychiatric day centre with theme of Pot Garden, using stencilling and sponge painting techniques. Work bought by the Friends of Peterborough Hospital for the permanent print collection.


Education
Colchester Institute 2003-4
Sheepen Road
Colchester, Essex
City & Guilds 5260 Printing Studies Graphic Communications,

Colchester Institute July 2002
Sheepen Road
Colchester, Essex
Introductory Stage Therapeutic Counselling

Colchester Institute Summer 2000
Sheepen Road
Colchester, Essex
Attended Festival of Learning Web Design

City University, London, EC1 Winter 1990
Freelance Journalism Evening Class

Goldsmiths College of Art, Camberwell, London Sept 1983 to July 1986
M.A. Fine Art

Pitmans Secretarial College 1981
Holborn, London
Intensive secretarial skills

Bath Academy of Art, Corsham, Wiltshire Sept 1977 to July 1980
B.A. (Hons) First Class,
Fine Art (Painting)
Screen-Printing, Complimentary Studies

Bath Academy of Art, Corsham, Wiltshire Sept 1976 to July 1977
Foundation in Art

Kent College, Pembury, Kent
Sept 1968 to July 1976
A' Levels x 2 Art, Geography, English
O' Levels x 9 Art, Geography, English Literature, English Language, French, Biology, Religious Knowledge, Maths, Economics & Public Affairs

MA Fine Art 1986 Goldsmiths College, London


BA(Hons.) First Class Painting 1980 Bath Academy of Art, Corsham

MA thesis: "Carl Andre: Transcendental Value and Materials"
BA degree module breakdown:
Major: Painting
Minor: Screenprinting
Minor: Complimentary Studies, Geology :"New College Oxford: The buildings and their stones"
Minor: Complimentary Studies, Art & Design History: "Two contemporary American architects: Michael Graves & Robert Stern"