my creative practice
I make poems, videos, art, and connections
I watch the world and take photographs
I have been in a poetry workshop group since 2020 and I am in two other creative support groups
I was a member of a women’s writing group in Sheffield from 2007-2025
In 2025 I took part in an eight-month art mentorship programme, which culminated in an online exhibition.
The exhibition has now closed, but you can still access the catalogue, watch recordings of the opening, a panel discussion, and interviews with all the artists by CLICKING HERE
Latest online poetry publications
A Hawfinch Addresses a Nature Writer
endtime
Reunion
in
wave twenty-one of iamb - poetry seen and heard
March 2025
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.
The more I looked, the more I saw
the more I saw, the more I smiled
