Your garden should be a safe place of relaxation and fun…

I worked with a Charity based in Chester in October 2019 and created outdoor wire sculptures with a group of young people. We worked together and made the flower base, then added chicken wire mesh in the centre of the base and weaved wire inside and out of the structure. We connected the wire flower sculptures onto a pole and spray painted the 9 flowers to bring some brightness into the community garden.

‘Add a bit of colour into your garden’

Art work and Slogans contain important messages…

During December 2019 I worked in a school in Flintshire creating a Pop art painting to make young people aware of the dangers of substance misuse. They picked the issue based topic and we did forum work discussing the problems and peer pressure teenagers face. I worked with the same group and they designed and created slogan t-shirts that they could take home and wear.

‘Stop and think’

Dont feel trapped inside…

During September 2018 up until October 2019 I delivered Nature workshops for an Organisation in Cheshire. We made nature paint made out of natural ingredience using materials found in the garden, and combined these with ash, chalk, onion, tumeric, mustard, spinach, chilli powder and carrots – and used honey and water to bind the ingredience together.  We had great fun experimenting!

‘Get outdoors and be creative’

The group came up with a gate design, we revamped the old piano and sprung new life into it by turning it into a large planter and potting Ivy, and created wind chimes for the group to take home and put up in the community garden. Outside work in the fresh air!

Natural paint making

Nature paint work completed by some of the group

The Community garden gate designed and painted by the young people

Wind Chime workshop

Wind Chime materials for workshop

Bringing life back into the piano

Its good to talk…

I worked with young people from 2 hostels in Flintshire in January 2018 to create a large scale abstract painting based on the importance of mental health. The wall art is exhibited in Basix Wrestling club in Connahs Quay, Flintshire. The design was based on doodle art and represents how chaotic anxiety and stress is, and how it can weight you down.

‘Mental health – lets talk about it…’

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Out side in or In side out?

I worked with a homeless charity in Flintshire with funding from Grow Wild and created an indoor inspired garden with 3 zones – a bedroom, an interactive space and contemplation zone. This project was finished in September 2016.

‘You dont have to feel your on the outside?’

Sometimes you just need to look at things differently…

I have created 5 soldered spheres out of galvanized wire which are different dimensions, but at certain angles they look perspectively the same! These have been displayed at Art in Woodstock, Oxfordshire and Mount Pleasant Gardens. I have created this to question peoples judgement – things are not always what they seem…

‘Take a moment and look around’

Can you imagine?

Have you ever imagined a world made of wool? Well here it is… a site specific temporary performance and Installation presenting the audience with a new world. Participants are taken into a surreal and obscure world made of wool. This was performed outside Chester Cathedral for 3 nights in 2008, and exhibited in CUC, Liverpool.

‘Unleashing the subconcious’

‘Were on our way to Chester’
‘We find ourselves in Woollyester’
‘Were walking along, singin this Song’
Walking in a Wolly Wonderland…’

‘In the Summer we can sit on Deckchairs…’
‘We can catch a tan, or sit in shade’
‘We`ll have a brew and gossip bout the neighbours…’
‘and nibble on the cakes that we have made.

‘What is that room?’

I found a small room at the top of a very old building in Liverpool. “What is the purpose of this room? Why is is here?” I created a light art piece which gave this peculiar space at the top of a spiral stair case intrigue – I experimented with colour, noise and movement so people could be immersed into the art. I later projected these images onto the wall and developed a set of paintings.

‘Let this painting take you on a journey’

‘Make a wish…’

I worked with Chester Performs to create an interactive wishing tree for a magical event called ‘something wishful’ in 2008. Community groups were asked to download a 3D star to pledge into the tree for the event. Participants were asked to decorate the design and make a wish to slot it into the tree.

‘I hope your wish comes true’

A tunnel within a tunnel?

This temporary site specific installation was exhibited at Williamson Heritage Tunnel, in Liverpool for ‘Edgecentrics’. The piece is called ‘A Williamson Tunnel within a Williamson Tunnel’ and links the 8th kings regiments who built the labrynth in 1810… the work is site specific and is placed inside a concrete link tunnel – you are meant to march into the Installation and pass through the gold, blue & red stripes…

‘Right, left… Right, left…’