snow morning pencil & watercolour
sheds along the kelleth lane oil on canvas 40x50cm
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Hallbankgate Hub - gallery, cafe and shop on the border of Cumbria and Northumbria
Designs Gallery in Castle Douglas - shop for clothes, books and art, eat good food in the cafe.
The Hub, Eskdalemuir - a place to meet, with a café & bar, community shop and gallery.
Loch Arthur farm shop & cafe in Galloway - the best in organic, local food and sustainable products.
Spring Fling - Dumfries & Galloway's Open Studio Trail
Upland Arts Development Company - for artists living and working in Dumfries & Galloway
Gracefield Arts Centre in Dumfries - galleries, craft shop & coffee shop
www.hallbankgatehub.org - gallery, cafe, on the border of Cumbria and Norhtumbria
'sleddale beck'
I live on the edge of the Eden Valley and the Westmorland Dales,
an area lying between eastern fells of the Lake District and the Pennines.
This remote and beautiful pastoral landscape has a unique mix of habitats,
with rare wild flower meadows, traditional agricultural buildings
and evidence of ancient settlements.
I revisit Dumfries and Galloway regularly, particularly the Solway Coast and
Eskdalemuir and also to take part in Spring Fling and Upland Made.
The excellent changing exhibition programme at Gracefield Arts Centre
is also always a draw.
CV
- BA Fine Art, Liverpool College of Art
- BA Art History & Philosophy, Open University
- Between 1998 & 2017, in Dumfries & Galloway, teaching adult art classes, setting up galleries & curating exhibitions.
- Since 2017 lived in Westmorland, concentrating on my own work.
- Regular 'Spring Fling’ participant, Dumfries & Galloway's open studio trail..
- Member of 'Upland' artists' network.
RECENT EXHIBITIONS
2025 Cumbria Local Artists' Open, Grasmere Village Hall
Spring Fling 2025, Gelston Village Hall
Brewery Arts Open Exhibition
Above Eden Open Studios & Exhibition, Shap
'Summer' at Garfield Mill Gallery, Hawick
2024 'Dreaming in Colour ' Whitehouse Gallery, Kirkcudbright
'Memories & Imagination' Caerlaverock Wetland Centre
'Spring Fling 2024' Open Studio Event at Gelston
'Brewery Arts Open Exhibition' Kendal
'After the Rain' Hallbankgate Hub, Cumbria
'The East / West Show' Gracefield Craft Shop
'Upland Made Art Fair' Dumfries
2023 Spring at the Hive, Nenthead, Cumbria
'New Beginnings' Brewery Arts Centre, Kendal
Shap Outdoor Festival, The Old Courthouse, Shap
'Canvas & Clay', Whitehouse Gallery, Kirkcudbright
Spring Fling Open Studio 27, 28 & 29 May at Gelston Village Hall
‘Pathways & Journeys’ The Hub, Eskdalemuir, Langholm
'Open Exhibition' Brewery Arts Centre, Kendal
Art & Craft Fair, 22 & 23 September, Quaker Tapestry Museum, Kendal
'Floribundance' Gracefield Arts Centre, Dumfries
Upland Made Art & Craft Fair, Easterbrook Hall, Dumfries
2022 'Spring Fling 20th Anniversary Exhibition' Gracefield Arts Centre, Dumfries
Spring Fling Open Studio Trail, Gelston
'Gathering Place' The Old Courthouse, Shap, Cumbria
'Autumn Gathering' Wildlife & Wetland Trust Visitor Centre, Caerlaverock
Upland Made' Art & Craft Fair, Easterbrook Hall, Dumfries
'Christn*s' at the Craft Shop, Gracefield Arts Centre, Dumfries
'Christmas Art & Craft at the Hive' Nenthead, Cumbria
2021 'Days Without End' WWT Caerlaverock, Dumfries & Galloway
& Old Courthouse Gallery, Shap
2020 'High Summer’,The Hive, Nenthead
2019 Material Worlds’ Old Courthouse, Shap
Solo exhibition, The Hub, Eskdalemuir
‘Fold in the land – and the sea!’ Woolfest, Cockermouth
Frameworks & Cushions, Gracefield Craft Shop, Dumfries
2018 ‘Lands in Between’ The Hub, Eskdalemuir
‘Postcards for Iona’ Iona Craft Shop, Argyll
Viridian Gallery, Keswick
Lakes Artists, Grasmere
‘Fold in the Land’ Woolfest, Cockermouth
Otterburn Gallery, Dumfries
2017 ‘Summer Exhibition’ The Lakes Artists Society, Grasmere
‘Cumbrian Artist of the Year’ Rheged Gallery, Penrith
‘Home’ Whitehouse Gallery, Kirkcudbright
2016 ‘Frost & Fire’ Gracefield Arts Centre, Dumfries
‘Winter’ Whitehouse Gallery, Kirkcudbright
‘Postcards 2016’ Lyon & Turnbull, Edinburgh
2015 ‘React/Reflect/Respond’ Perth Museum & Art Gallery
‘The Eye of the Beholder’ Friends Gallery, Theatre by the Lake, Keswick
2014 ‘Same But Different’ Art Fair, Temple Newsam, Leeds
‘Coast’ Flat Cat Gallery, Lauder
‘Narratives’ Coldstream Gallery, Berwickshire
‘Catchment’ Gracefield Arts Centre, Dumfries & The Mill on the Fleet, Gatehouse
COMMISSIONS
2021 Highlighting Eden ‘Light Up Eden'’ commission & temporary installation in public space.
2010 House for an Art Lover, Glasgow - two paintings purchased for their permanent collection
2009 Renal Unit, Dumfries & Galloway Royal Infirmary [Three paintings 'Nithsdale Triptych']
2005 Alexandra Unit, DGRI
Home
UPLAND MADE, 1 & 2 NOVEMBER 2025
EASTERBROOK HALL, DUMFRIES
Cushions with Heart & Raku with Soul - look for our stand!
My textiles and paintings and Julian Francis's ceramics
ANCIENT LANDS - SMALL WORKS / BIG THEMES
20 NOVEMBER - 3 DECEMBER
GARFIELD MILL, HAWICK
'settlement - eden' one of a series of 6 small digital collages
Before there were regions, borders, countries -
there were travellers, there was stone - and gradually
settlers and farmers. Evidence abounds!
Magic and mystery remain.
www.garfieldmill.gallery.events
AUTUMN at THE HUB, ESKDALEMUIR
Paintings & cards for the turning year.
Friendly cafe, gallery & community shop to enjoy.
'snow morning' pencil & watercolour
VEREY BOOKS POETRY PRIZE 2025
Verey Books in Pooley Bridge - books! And cakes & coffee.
Thrilled that my poster/poem
'SOLWAY' won an award!