Welcome to my website. I have been making art from my home in the North West of England, almost all my life,  mostly as a painter. Towards the end of 2023 however  I started messing about with clay - and I loved it. I have always liked making things. It runs  in the family.  But I'm an experimenter. If I hear you should not put this medium on top of that medium I immediately want to try it to see what happens. In the art world the opportunities are limitless and exciting. 

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I have had a successful painting career enjoying a variety of experiences and not a little exposure. I have been accepted into many group exhibitiions in London and elsewhere and have won a number of prizes including the national Barbara Tate Memorial Award at the Society of Women Artists exhibition in 2013  and the Winsor and Newton award at the Royal Society for Painters in Water colour exhibition in 2022 . I was also honoured to be included in the Roy.al Academy Summer show in 2016.

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My inspiration and my process is eclectic but founded on a fascination with the relationship of the human species to its environment.  I toyed with the idea at one time of becoming an archaeologist. I'm very interested in the natural surface of things and the idea  of excavating what lies beneath. I end up creating layers in my work simply in order to re-discover them in a constant cycle of building and digging which seems to be never ending.​​​​​

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​​​​Thank you for visiting.

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Sheila

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