2023 – present volunteer, Good Food Oxfordshire, supporting a shift to local food systems
2022 – present Associate Director Urban Agriculture Consortium, convening a food land mappers group
2022 – present University Church of St Mary’s Oxford, Ecochurch co-ordinator
2019 – 2021 Chair and co-ordinator of Incredible Edible Lambeth
2018 – 2020 St James’ Piccadilly Ecochurch team, Gold award holders, encouraging people of faith to live more lightly
2017 – present making pots, drawing
2017- present Director of Incredible Edible Lambeth, supporting local food systems
2017-2019 One day a week volunteering at The Platform, community cafe.
2016-2017, Biodiversity project for UWCSEA – a Foundation-funded project – recording biodiversity on the school site, implementing a biodiversity treasure hunt for Junior School and creating display boards for the heart of the school.
2016-2017, established Incredible Edible UWCSEA – ran student programme of Service, tending three vegetable and fruit gardens on campus.
2016 Organiser of ‘Forward Fashion’, a sustainable fashion evening, at UWCSEA
2016 ‘Structure’ – a joint show with a fellow artist/photographer at Kent Vale, Singapore
2015-2017 Sustainability Co-ordinator for the Parents’ Association at United World College SEA
2015 Solo show ‘Pots and Paintings’, Kent Vale, Singapore
2014-2017, taught Visual Art at UWCSEA as supply teacher and ran after-school Middle School Art Enrichment programme
2014-2015 FoodMatters – co-wrote and ran a series of workshops on Food and how our choices impact the environment and our health, offered to parents and teachers at UWCSEA, Singapore
2014 Solo show ‘A year in Singapore’, Kent Vale, Singapore
2013 Solo show ’20 Years’, Al Qasimi, Durham University, Retrospective and Farewell to Durham
2013 Durham Friends of Green Belt campaign – worked to prevent the ruination of Durham City by Durham County Council.
2012 Worked with Year 5 children at Chorister School making storybooks
2011-2012 made pots, undertook paint and mixed media commissions (private), and lobbied to retain a Green Belt around Durham City.
2010-2011 sabbatical year living in Vietnam and Australia; a huge privilege to experience other ways of living. I painted (and potted) and worked part-time for the National Trust (picture research) and ‘Green Skills’, a not-for-profit organisation not unlike Climate Durham
2010 Solo show ‘Flight’, Al Qasimi, Durham University. The theme was displaced people (See Archive for images)
2008 Established social enterprise company – Climate Durham – to inspire and enable people locally to live lower carbon lifestyles
2008 Solo show ‘Windows on the World’, Al Qasimi, Durham University
2008 Completed raising money for Fenwick Lawson’s The Journey, which is now situated in Millennium Place, Durham
2008 Worked with all year groups in Ludworth School on the theme of the environment and climate change
2007 Project with University Hospital North Durham to design signage for a Woodland Walk, worked in several primary schools to generate artwork
2007 Arts Week, St Margaret’s Primary School Durham
2006 Commission for St Cuthbert’s Hospice, Durham, UK
2006 Commission for University Hospital North Durham, Arts for Health programme
2006 Project with St Oswald’s primary school, Durham City on the theme of ‘food’
2006 Jointly established a charity to raise money for a piece of sculpture The Journey, to be placed in Durham City
2005 Supplied Bridge End Surgery, Chester-le-Street with 20 works for their surgery
2005 Projects with Durham High School Juniors and Infants
1998-2001 Set up Travelmole.com, under the umbrella of Sift; now the leading website for the travel industry
1997 Solo show, Pall Mall Deposit, London
1996 Solo show, Collingwood College, Durham
1990-2002 Wrote guidebooks to Southeast Asia for Footprint
1986-1993 Taught in Fine Art department, Sir John Cass Art College (now Guildhall University)