Safekeeping WS5

I worked in architecture for twelve years before returning to education to study art graduating with a BA Hons in 2002.
My work is exhibited regularly in the UK and is held in private collections in the UK, Europe, Asia, the US and Australia.
It has been selected for the Royal West of England Academy Drawn exhibition, Royal Scottish Academy Annual exhibition and Fully Awake 5:6 at the Freelands Foundation, London. I have been a professional artist since 2006 and currently work from Vale Artists Studios in Cheshire.

My paintings and sculpture evolve from half-remembered glimpses seen from the corner of my eye, fleeting juxtapositions elusive to photography, the dislocated reverie of long car journeys, or from more studied compositions. They are created from many visual sources that are filtered through sketchbook work and altered intuitively as the work progresses.

solo exhibitions
2019 Balancing Act, &Gallery, Edinburgh
2019 Safekeeping, Staithes Studios Gallery, North Yorkshire
2018 Conscious Perception, The Stratford Gallery
2016 Susan Laughton at the Cold Press, Norfolk

2015 Travelling Light, Quercus Gallery, Bath, October 

2011 Still Here, greenroom, Manchester curated by Blank Media collective

2010 Measured Space Duckett and Jeffreys Gallery, Malton, North Yorkshire 

2009 Sightlines Salford Museum & Art Gallery including curation of work from Salford’s permanent collection see more

2008 Haworth Museum & Gallery Accrington



recent group exhibitions:

2019 Small Works, The Stratford Gallery, Stratford upon Avon

2019 Fully Awake, The Freelands Foundation, London

2019 Constructs of Colour The Old Lock Up Gallery, Derbyshire

2018/19 Organic Form Gallery 57, Arundel

2018/19 Winter exhibition The Stratford Gallery

2018 Initial Sighting &Gallery, Edinburgh

2018 A contour, a curve - the lie of the land Gallery 57, Arundel

2018 JOURNEY The Stratford Gallery, Stratford upon Avon

2018 The Affordable Art Fair, Battersea, London

2018 Winter, The Stratford Gallery

2017 Mixing Signals, Kobi & Teal, Frome, Somerset

2017 Gaze, Glimpse: Looking at landscape Gallery 57, Arundel

2017 Ikigai: A reason for living, The Old Lock Up Gallery, Derbyshire

2017 A Time for Reflection, The Stratford Gallery, Stratford upon Avon

2017 Presence, Artwave West, Morecombelake, Dorset

2016 Opening Exhibition, The Stratford Gallery, Stratford-upon-Avon

2016 Buy Art Fair Manchester, represented by Staithes Studios

2016 Lichfield Art Prize: Finalist Lichfield Cathedral
2016 A Certain Language Staithes Studios gallery, North Yorkshire

2015 Royal West of England Academy, Bristol, 'Drawn'
2014 Bristol Affordable Art Fair represented by Columbia Road Gallery

2014 Quercus Gallery Summer Show

2014 Hampstead Affordable Art Fair

2013 Battersea Affordable Art Fair

2013 New York City Affordable Art Fair

2013 neo:artprize exhibition neo:gallery 22, Bolton

2013 Hampstead Affordable Art Fair

2013 Bristol Affordable Art Fair

2012 Artlink Stockport Art Galley, Cheshire

2011 A Different View The Barefoot Gallery, Boston Spa, Yorkshire

2011 No.1: Paint BLANKSPACE Gallery, Manchester

2011 Wirksworth Festival Art Trails

2011 Barnaby Festival, Macclesfield

2011 Stockport Contemporary Open Stockport Art Gallery, Cheshire

2010 Palace Art Fair Fulham, London

2009 Art of Ideas II : Arts & Business/Arts Council exhibition selected by Stephen Snoddy, Director of the Walsall Gallery