my creative practice

I make poems, art and connections
I watch the world and take photographs

I have been a member of a women’s writing group in Sheffield since 2007
and a poetry workshop group since 2020
I am in two other creative support groups

For the last few years, I have been part of an information exchange between artists and the University of Sheffield.
Called Creative Lives, our focus is on dismantling ageism in the creative professions.

In May 2022, I was one of a group of ten artists commissioned to produce work related to the concepts of memory and trauma.

The resulting online exhibition was launched on the 9th September and you can see my work here. One of the artefacts I made is below.

Creative Lives 2022

Artefact II: holding the silence

You can read some of my poems online:

The generosity of the dead at Ink Sweat and Tears

Bear with Squeeze Box at Algebra of Owls

Handiwork at Three Drops from a Cauldron

I have been published in various journals including Dream Catcher, Strix and The Dawntreader and in anthologies Whirlagust II (Yaffle Press)
and Phenomenal Women (Grey Hen Press).

In visual art, as in poetry, I am interested
in the shape, the shift, the length, the heft, the weight and the swing of line.

A theme I have been exploring for some years is the relationship between
line, circle and colour.

I make artist books and find poetry in unpromising places.

All of the photographs on this site are mine.

I love taking photographs of the world around me.
This really took hold during the first COVID-19 lockdown,
where we were only able to go out once a day
and keep near to home.
I started taking photographs on my daily walks.