I really enjoy teaching. The point is to discover people’s real interests, and to help them on to the next step, whatever their current starting point.

To make a lot of progress in a short time is exciting for everyone around you.

I trained at the Slade School of Fine Art, at London University. I have worked in many schools and colleges throughout my life, teaching on a variety of courses. These have ranged from BA Art and Design to working in a primary school. I taught in a girls college in the USA, at Southampton Institute, and at others in Hampshire and London.

I have had single students who needed to develop work for art school courses and exams..Also small groups have often come here to learn techniques and work on ideas.

I’ve printed textiles for the Royal Shakespeare Company and English National Opera, and experimented with ceramics.

I use photography and drawing to examine and develop ideas. At the moment I am interested in print rather than painting, but it is interesting to combine the two, and see what happens.

Video also has its own attraction, and I have tried out projection on moving surfaces, including people, and am still interested in taking that further.

I love to make things, and all the tiles in our house were handmade by me over the years. I go into the studio interested in something that I have seen recently.

It could be making etchings from hints of social changes in crowded streets, or painting from shadows in the forest outside.

I make stop-frame videos of melting snow and set moving images to music. Everyday things give many kinds of inspiration.

Whether you are an absolute beginner, a confident artist or a student, I have been teaching A level and BA students for 50 years and and can help you look at new ways to progress.

There are so many ways of looking at a tree; from utterly abstract to totally naturalistic. 

All visual expression uses the same factors to communicate;  colour and space, composition and feeling.

Teaching for me, is about the joy of enabling people to move onto their next stage, and in helping them to discover what that will be.