About Me and My Work
I am an abstract painter and this also strongly influences my photography. My paintings and photography mainly explore the impact of the hidden, whether it be in the unconscious, in past history or somewhere in the present.
In painting I look to combine elements of being in and out of control in my use of materials, allowing the unconscious to have expression. My photography often includes content that is ‘there but not there’.
I have always been passionate about art and the beginnings of actually beginning to make it were during the 1980s when working as a psychoanalytic psychotherapist and expressing a desire to explore expressing meanings without words.
In 2014 I moved into a studio at Yorkshire Artspace after a gap of about ten years in my art work.
Between 1993-2005 I was a member of SCAT (Sheffield Contemporary Artists)
SCAT was an artist-led organisation whose main aim is to promote the work of contemporary artists living and working in and around Sheffield. The trust operated as a forum to encourage visual artists of all disciplines, and as an umbrella group to facilitate funding.
Within this a number of us worked or had an interest in mental health problems and as a result of this I started a special interest group within SCAT.
The main exhibitions I contributed to are:
1992 Driven to Abstraction Walkley Centre Gallery - joint exhibition with Joella Bruckshaw
1995-6 - Sheffield Contemporary Arts Trust at the Mappin. - Mappin Art Gallery, Sheffield
1997 Contemporary Diversions Clock Tower Gallery Northern General Hospital
1997 The Unconscious joint exhibition with University of Sheffield Centre for Psychotherapeutic Studies Lounge Gallery University of Sheffield
2000 - Concerning the Spiritual, Sheffield Cathedral, Selby Abbey
2003 States of Mind The Forum Sheffield
2004 Memories?... Dreams?... Lescar Community Project Gallery 2004
Since being at Yorkshire Artspace I have taken part in their open weekends and in Sheffield Open Up studios event.
Exhibitions in 2016
Unity Exchange Place Sheffield
The Presence of Colour Exchange Place Sheffield
Fuse The Holt Sheffield
Work in progress: Jane's journey through endometriosis Exchange Place Studios Open Up Sheffield
20 x 20 Access Space Sheffield
Exhibitions in 2017
Fuse 3 Access Space Sheffield
Transitions Exchange Place Studios Sheffield
Platform Art Fair Athens
Hidden Pain, Hidden Lives Marylebone Project, London
Portraits Access Space Sheffield
Failure to Connect Harrington Mill Studios Long Eaton
Festival of Angels St Marie' Cathedral Sheffield
20 x 20 Access Space Sheffield
Exhibitions in 2018
Abstract Expressionism Gallery Gallery 35 Chapel Walk Sheffield
Identity The Grace Gallery Sheffield
Exhibitions in 2019
20 x 20 Access Space Sheffield
Art in the Home Kommune Sheffield
Living with Endometriosis Exchange Place Studios Open Studios Weekend Sheffield
Fronteer 2019 35 Chapel Walk Gallery Sheffield
Exhibitions in 2020
Fronteer Exhibition The Circle Sheffield (collaboration with Sarah Drabble)
Exhibitions in 2021
Abstract Fronteer Gallery Sheffield
Yorkshire Artspace Open Studios: Current Work Exchange Place Studios Sheffield
Exhibitions in 2022
Bones Fronteer Gallery Sheffield
Specimen Fronteer Gallery Sheffield
Paint Fronteer Gallery Sheffield
Inside Out (with Carys Reilly) Marylebone Project London
Exhibitions in 2023
Inside Out (with Carys Reilly) Surface Gallery Nottingham
Inside Out (with Carys Reilly) Exchange Place Studios Sheffield
Inside Out (with Carys Reilly) Six Foot Gallery Glasgow
Underneath the Surface Exchange Place Studios Sheffield
Privacy Policy
Privacy of personal information is an important principle to my practice. I am committed to collecting, using and disclosing personal information responsibly and only to the extent necessary for the services I provide.
Like all artists, I collect and use personal information in order to serve my buyers and others interested in my work. The purpose for collecting such information to be able to effectively communicate with such persons.
Like most organisations, I also collect, use and disclose information for purposes related to or secondary to my primary purposes such as advising of special events or opportunities.
I do not retain information beyond the time of the purpose for which it has been given.
