Born in Moffat in 1957 and lived in Beattock until I was 18 - I studied at Gray’s School of Art in Aberdeen from 1977 to 1981 gaining a Diploma in Art in Printmaking and Graphic Design and a Post-Diploma in Printmaking in 1981 – I then embarked on a life of work whilst  continuing to produce my own artwork.

Since retiring from being a horticultural therapist, I have converted my garage into a studio where I work most days. I regularly post to Instagram and have recently uploaded my website.

I got into collage while at Art School being inspired by amongst others, Colin Thoms, one of my lecturers, who advised me to look at billboard residue, ripped off sections revealing what lies below the layers of images - like the contours of memory, the strata of information, hints of disjointed meanings, colours, textures, shapes and text all combining to form something new which in iself can have it's layers removed and repurposed - a perpetual image creative process - one hinted at by Contemporary  Collage Magazine's  collaboration challenge.