I worked as a free-lance designer for active wear but soon found the industry restrictive and not offering me a big enough platform to concentrate on drawing and markmaking. Focussing on Illustration and teaching Art & Design seemed to be the better fit. I moved to the UK in 1998. Since 1993 I have produced free artwork and in 2009 I gave up teaching to exclusively focus onto this.
2013 Sefton Lodge, Liverpool
2013 Inka Café Bar, Macclesfield
2012 Gallery at Bank Quay House, Warrington
2012 "Fragmented views", MerseyBio, Liverpool
2012 "Transfigured Spaces", Barnaby Festival Art Trail, Macclesfield
2011 Cheshire Open Studios, at own studio, Prestbury
2011 "Canvas, thread & steel", The Arts Centre, Bollington
2010 B.O. Architecture, Bensheim, Germany
1997 Himmlisch, Rastatt
1997 Die Schule, Pforzheim
Group exhibitions
2014 Funky Aardvark, Chester: Cheshire Open Studios
2014 Contribution to "www.twothousandandfourteen.com"
2014 "Ghosts in the machine", with Sara MacKian, Charles Roe House, Macclesfield.
2013 Exhibition of Figurative Art, The Attic Gallery, Macclesfield
2013 Macclesfield Open Art Exhibition, Silk Museum, Macclesfield
2013 "Three Counties Open 2013", Keele University
2013 Warrington Open Contemporary Art Exhibition
2013 "Skarts - Stockport Open Contemporary Art Show", Stockport
2013 Eggspace, Liverpool
2013 "Echoes - evolution innit?" , Barnaby Festival Macclesfield, with Erika Groeneveld and
Tony Berriman2013
2013 Open Exhibition Grosvenor Museum, Chester
2012 Cheshire Open Studios, Castle Park Arts Centre, Frodsham
2012 "Hospitality Re-Viewed", Baltic Creative, Liverpool
2012 "Fabric of the Land", Geology & Petroleum Geology School of Geosciences,
University Aberdeen
2012 "Other Dimensions", Bebb & Sekers, Adlerle Edge
2012 "Abstracted", Marburae Art Gallery, Macclesfield
2012 "Reflections", The Art Lounge, New Mills
2012 Waterside Arts Centre Open Exhibition, Sale
2011 The Big Draw: "Drawing Perspectives" at Everyman Art Gallery, Chorlton
2011 Warrington Contemporary Open Exhibition
2011 "Inspired To...", Warrington Museum & Art Gallery
2011 Cheshire Open Studios at Raw Siena, Knutsford
2011 British Aviation Authority: Heathrow Airport, Terminal 5
2011 "Muse of the 10th Night", Snowgoose, Macclesfield
2011 "The Open", Stockport Art Gallery
2010 Al Panino, Macclesfield
2010 Art House, Lindow House, Wilmslow
1997 42 Artists, Pforzheim, Germany
Prizes
2014 First Prize, Funky Aardvark, Chester: Cheshire Open Studios
2013 3rd Prize, Grosverner Museum Open Exhibition 2013, Chester
2013 Highly commended, Marburae Art Gallery "Cheshire Open Studios 2013"
2011 Prize Winner category "Seasons" with "Cool cloud on memory lane", Warrington
Contemporary Arts Festival 2011
Qualifications and training
2002 Post-Graduate Certificate in Education (FE), Sunderland University
1991 - 1992 Illustration, Drawing, Photography, Pratt Institute and F.I.T., New York (post-gradutate scholarship with German National Scholarship Foundation)
1987 - 1991 Fashion Design (degree), Hochschule Pforzheim, Germany
