I studied fine-art painting at St Albans and Exeter Colleges of Art. I then worked as an illustrator for 10 years, working on commissions for books, national magazines, newspapers, and greeting cards. While working as an illustrator, my work developed a highly decorative style, which led to me being a winner in the National Silver Trust Competition in 1993 to design a plate for the 10 Downing Street ceremonial dinner service.

I now create mosaics for private commissions and exhibitions in the UK and Europe and am a member of the British Association for Modern Mosaic. In recent years I have taken part in various exhibition.

In 2006 I organised the Symbols of Faith exhibition in York Minster which was open 1st-30th September 2006. This included, finding the venue and negotiating with the Minster, currating the applications and hanging the exhibition.

I prepared the sucessful proposal for the group exhibition at Wakefield Art Gallery Yorkshire 2007 including; choosing the artists, sourcing biographies and images from the artists and proparing the formal application document.

I am the co-ordinator of the Northern Area group of BAMM arranging meetings, group exhibitions, technique demonstrations and bringing together solo artists in the area.

These three chimneys were first displayed at the Breakout exhibition at the Bilston Craft Gallery in 2007. This was a juried exhibition of 15 international artists.

They were on display this summer at the Newby Hall Sculpture Park for the Summer's Season 2008.

I would like to thank the Arts Council of Great Britain for their grant which has part funded this project.