RECENT SHOWS
2024
Jan-Feb
‘Ensemble’, Kroll, Paris - an ArtCan exhibition, January 2023
I’ve been incredibly privileged to have had a piece in ArtCan’s twice-extended Paris show at Kroll since the beginning of last year. It is wrapping up on 8 February. Thank you to everyone who went to see the show. And to ArtCan for this amazing opportunity.
Kroll
4 Pl. Edouard VII, 75009 Paris, France 2023
2023
DECEMBER
I’m very happy to be showing with Ellie Hipkin at MangeTout this Christmas, from 10 December to 14 January. This is my third show here, and I love it. The staff are unbelievably nice, it’s a great atmosphere, really delicious food and great service - and the art ain’t bad neither. If you’re in Brighton and need artistic and delicious sustenance, this is the place to be. As for me, I love showing here.
Mark Rothko did very well in restaurants, after all.
OCTOBER
‘HOME’ I am delighted to be taking part in group exhibition in at The Department Store, 248 Ferndale Road, Brixton, London, SW9 8FR - from 20-29th October - I am showing a small picture which will feature in my forthcoming show ‘In My Mother’s Place - a painting I made during lockdown when I was separated from my mum, but soothed myself imagining her having breakfast in her little cottage kitchen. It’s called ‘What I Think About When I Think About My Mother (Home Place)’
This is an ArtCan show sponsored by Suna Interior Design, staged in an extraordinary space.
SEPTEMBER
‘Pathways at The Crypt’ in Seaford, part of ArtWave - I’ll be taking part in a group show at The Crypt in Seaford in September. 2-17 September. PATHWAYS | Artwave 2023 — Crypt Gallery (thecryptgallery.com)
JULY
Summer exhibition at Atelier by the Sea, Brighton seafront, 165 Kings Road Arches, Brighton BN1 1NB, 13 July to 9 September
MAY
This year I’ve opened my own house as part of the Brighton Festival Open Houses. We had a great opening weekend, so please come and see us next weekend if you missed it - 20/21 May, 11-5pm, Venue 18 on the Fiveways Trail.
Emily Beaumont is showing her beautiful chairs (and selling them very fast!), and Tessa Cushan her stunning upcycled retro furniture, as well as Michael Geraghty who is showing his beautiful still life oil paintings for the first time - we would love you to come along. There is excellent and free cake, too, OBViously.
2022
NOVEMBER
DO NOT OBSTRUCT gallery
I am excited to be taking part in the first group show at the Do Not Obstruct Gallery in Kemptown in Brighton from 2-27 November 2022.
The gallery runs incredible pop up shows in random and exciting venues across the city, this year in the disused Hippodrome Building and the old Cab Run, a cobbled space below the train station previously used by the horse and carriage taxis.
My work will be on display in the gallery itself with a really dynamic range of other artists throughout November. Subscribers get first invites to the Private View. Come and see!
BRIGHTON FESTIVAL 2022
As last year, I will be showing at 44 Florence Road and The Nature House, 113 Preston Drove.
The ‘MURMURATIONS’ collection will show, the larger paintings, will be at Florence Road. Smaller seascapes and flower work wiill show at The Nature House.
ART TOUT a MANGE TOUT
My work will also be showing at the ever fabulous Mange Tout Restaurant in the North Laine from
10 July to 14 August 2022.
All email subscribers will receive tickets for the Private View - the show runs from 11 July to 14 August.
2021
BRIGHTON FESTIVAL MAY/JUNE 2021
I am delighted to be showing my paintings in two gorgeous open houses on the Fiveways Trail this May/June - 44 Florence Road, and The Nature House at 113 Preston Drove - five weekends from 29 May to 27 June.
‘ALL HUMAN WISDOM IS SUMMED UP BY TWO WORDS: WAIT and HOPE.’
- Alexander Dumas
2020
OUTSIDE OPEN STUDIO 12/13th December
Described prosaically by my husband as ‘your bits and pieces’ sale, this is an opportunity for subscribers and followers to come and raid my studio and scoop up end-of-line prints and one-off pieces, cards, ABCs and children’s pieces, and even some mugs and cushions.
Entry will be both online (on instagram), and/or through our back gate, outside in the garden, with mulled cider and mince pies to warm up our exhausted Covid souls. We will arrange general times in advance.
By invitation or enquiry.
‘LOCKDOWN LANDSCAPES’
Starling Studio, Havelock Road, Brighton, June 2020
I am so happy for the opportunity to be showing a range of work at this time, featuring all the small new watercolours that I have done recording the walks I have taken around the South Downs with my family during lockdown. All new work is presented unframed, and for sale at under £100 as part of @artistssupportpledge
2019
THE HAZE OF DAYS
Brighton Festival - three weekends in May 2019, 28 Osborne Villas, Hove BN3 2RR
Summer days and haze, heatwaves and cold days - this selection of large paintings continue my look at our increasingly blended seasons and their sensual impact on us; and how that sensual impression blends with our memories of place and the time. With a focus on colour and light, the paintings are paired with poems about memory, nostalgia and regret.
WASHING LINES
Brighton Festival - four weekends in May 2019, 118 Balfour Road
o me, washing lines are such a great doorway into what unites us and I love painting them. Wherever, whoever and whatever we are, we all have to wash and hang our clothes. It is hard to hang washing in a hurry, and so this domestic imperative forces us to slow down, pause, concentrate on shaking out creases and pegging up, finding creative places to dry, be it in or between trees, on balconies, between posts or tables, or strung between buildings.
Talking to people about washing always elicits memories and stories - of moments with dead grandmothers, out in gardens, passing up pegs; of warming still-damp vests on oven doors, to send you off toasty to school; of tears over sheets… a relentless fact of life, but part of the comfort of domestic rhythms, too.
This selection of paintings is a mixture of my more traditional style and this more graphic work.
ARTWAVE Festival 2019, Lewes
24/25/26th August; 30/31 August 2019 @66 Priory Street, Lewes - just turn left out of the station
Water, flowers and light is my theme for this gorgeous open house just up from Lewes Station.
I’m showing work in a range of different formats, from large 100x100cm framed canvases, to framed and unframed, ‘handfinished’ (hand painted and unique) prints, and smaller framed original works on paper. And for anyone looking for a great children’s gift, you can also find my ABC prints.
