Awards, Publications and Exhibitions.
International Polymer Clay Association Awards for 2017
I am extremely happy to announce that both the pieces I entered into this year's Emerging Artist categories won awards. My Hang Gliding Lizard, titled 'One Small Step....One Giant Leap', won the Member's Choice for best Non Functional Sculpture and Hanging Art, and my 'Earth Flower Bowl' won both the Judges and the Member's Choice for best Functional Container.
I have been exhibiting my paintings since 1999, and have also been extremely lucky over the past couple of years to have had some of my Polymer Clay designs published in Jewellery magazines. If you are interested in the details, please scroll down below.
I am extremely happy to announce that both the pieces I entered into this year's Emerging Artist categories won awards. My Hang Gliding Lizard, titled 'One Small Step....One Giant Leap', won the Member's Choice for best Non Functional Sculpture and Hanging Art, and my 'Earth Flower Bowl' won both the Judges and the Member's Choice for best Functional Container.
I have been exhibiting my paintings since 1999, and have also been extremely lucky over the past couple of years to have had some of my Polymer Clay designs published in Jewellery magazines. If you are interested in the details, please scroll down below.
Publications. Four in One Necklace - detail.
I have been very lucky to have had several articles published in jewellery Magazines since Christmas 2010, with hopefully a few more to come.
Keep watching to see the new articles as they arrive. 
Poinsettia Beads
As of December 2013, my Poinsettia Bead tutorial is now available free, online, from Bead Me Magazine. My Tutorial is in Issue 4, page 10/11. Follow the link to see: http://bit.ly/15vL79l  Four in One Necklace.
Bead Magazine
Issue 27 Dec/Jan 2011 Four in One Necklace A versatile beading design I call the 'Nicola' necklace which creates a large spiral of beads and can be stopped at various stages to give a different look. It featured one of my focal beads on each example.  Neon Pendant.
Fine Silver Magazine
Jan/Feb 2011 Issue 4 Neon Pendant Joint project with Carol Merkl who is a Precious Metal Clay jewellery designer. Carol did the silver, I did the neon polymer clay.  Floral Focal Bead
Bead Magazine Issue 29 April/May 2011 Floral Focal Bead Showing the cane techniques to make individual petals and leaves, and how to add them to a polymer base.  Daisy Beads.
Bead & Button Magazine
Issue 105 October 2011 Daisy Beads Combining petal canes with a loopy base to give a fun and versatile bead.  Autumn Leaves.
Bead Magazine
Issue 33 Oct/Nov 2011 Autumn Leaves Showing how to use a mold to take a real leaf and turn it into a shimmering polymer clay version.  Poinsettia Beads.
Bead Magazine
Issue 34 Winter Sparkle Edition Poinsettia Beads Showing how to make a simple cane poinsettia flower and how to add it to a versatile base with 6 beading points.  Humbug Beads.
Bead Magazine
Issue 39 June/July 2012 Humbug Beads A quick and easy way to make fun humbug beads. .
 Linen Stripe Pendants
Bead Magazine
Issue 40 August/September 2012 Linen Stripe Pendants Showing how to use texture with the stripes to give a material look, and then inlay seed beads to trick the eye. |
Exhibitions
British Polymer Clay Guild 20th Anniversary Celebration Weekend.
I am very excited to be part of the Guild's anniversary weekend on 23rd and 24th September 2017, at Simply Limitless, Puxton Lane, Kidderminster, Worcestershire, DY11 5DF, 10 am - 4pm each day. The event will be held in a historic 19th-century carpet mill, Bondsworth Mill, on the bank of the River Stour in Kidderminster, which is now the home of the Simply Limitless Organisation, who are kindly hosting the BPCG Anniversary celebration weekend. We will have two whole days of workshops*, demonstrations, make and take sessions, exhibitions of work by our members, shopping opportunities from local clay and tool distributors and talks and demonstrations by some of our founders, Alison Gallant and Sue Heaser, polymer clay tutors and members of the Guild. We will launch a “Celebration” themed polymer clay competition at the event and will be collecting handmade beads for the children’s charity, Beads of Courage. With local media involvement, we hope to bring polymer clay to the notice of local people as well as our wider clay community. Visit the Guild website for more information here 
I am very pleased to announce that I will be part of the South Northamptonshire Art Trail, taking place between 7th and 15th October 2017. There will be over 40 artists taking part in the trail which is spread over 14 venues. I will be exhibiting Polymer Clay Artworks, Oil Paintings and prints at St. John the Baptist Church, Ashton Road, Hartwell, NN7 2HU, 10.30 - 4.30 Mon - Sat, 12.30 - 4.30 Sundays. For more details of the event, check out the Art Trail Website here.
 Fiery Waters - sold.
I had my first solo exhibition in Spain in the Summer of 1999. It was very successful and was the first time I realised that people who liked my work would actually also buy it - a wonderful feeling.
I have since exhibited widely in my local area, North Bucks, and South Northants, both with local art Groups / Associations and in Shops and Galleries. I have exhibited once more in Spain and am lucky enough to have my paintings hanging in homes and venues in many different countries. Unfortunately my health stops me from being as productive as I would like, but I still manage to produce some new works each year, most of which go quite quickly, but when I have enough pieces to hold another solo exhibition I will publish the details here. |