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young child

Born into dark humour in Northern England;

young child

Grew up bohemian in 1960’s -70s London; eclectic, rich & poor

painting of flowers

I wanted to be a botanical illustrator but fabrics seduced me

young woman in art school

Art School and Australia in the 1980’s

woman painting

Paris 1990’s

woman next to earth mural

New Zealand for the noughties.

What does one do after decades of textile designing and freelance art-adventures with incorrigible curiosity and a creative mind that enjoys new crafts? Learn to Teach of course. So I did. In New Zealand. Pre-school and high school - Art, Design & Health.

I had children; learned about children; love children. Worked in schools; branched into museums and community-arts; studied play & pleasure-gardens. Back to London. Wanted adults to find their inner-child and parent better. Worked at Royal Botanic Gardens Kew and The Garden Classroom, teaching environmental education; mission to support people to connect with nature, improving wellbeing and leading to increased respect for the natural world. I coordinated children & family theatre and co-ran a community nature festival in central London. Always self-employed, hand to mouth.

Floored by illness. Studied counselling, psycho-sexual health, NLP, environmental arts-therapy, tarot and archetypes.

Life has led me now to therapeutic arts and narrative medicine - working with arts and personal stories for wellbeing.

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