My Nursery, Margate

Been working for Animate/Learning Through Landscapes with My Nursery to help the nursery staff on a creative journey using their outdoor space. Here's the playhouse that's been transformed. Wait till you see the butterfly wellie cupboard!

Gulbenkien Theatre - Installation

Sensory installation for the theatre production of Tree Top Tales for children- Stories from around the world about trees

Kent Children's University

Two days, loads of plastazote, double sided, imagination and Fun!

New Years Eve

House full of people and watching fireworks from the bedroom window - a lovely way to see the New Year in!

Experimenting with new camera

Christmas tree lights and hanging mirror shots - had to wait ages for the mirror to turn and then get the right timing!

Margate's Wishing Lantern Parade

The 4th Margate wishing lantern parade I have been involved in. It was sooooo cold and windy, had to relight quite a few on route. Luckily I was armed with my superdooper lighter. Freezing but fun!

Animate for Friend Ship / Canterbury Fesitval

Made these costumes for Animate for the National Friend Ship Project part of Canterbury Festival and these great pickies were taken by photographer/artist Carol Fouton.

Gulbenkien Theatre - Christmas Decorations

Laminator madness with 30 kids & adults!

Kemsley Carnival

Spider Backpack, made of wire, plastic bags, pipe lagging and pizza base eyes!

Little Prince Project - Animate

Mandy Monroe and I with 'the pilot' alias Matt Spray wearing the amazing Memory Machine I made. I know I have a big grin on my face but honest I am pulling the string at the back that opens up the face!

Addington Street Fair

I didn't realise how COMPLETLEY ridiculous I looked until I saw the photo! Never mind it was a great advert as over 20 kids made some awesome crowns! Including a forgein student who took the photo.

Herne Bay Mural - Animate

Three days to paint a mural for the festival with Rob Turner - the design was made up of children's drawings from Briary School - we received/overheard lots of comments while working - really encouraging. Loved the mermaids hair and the circular saw mouth of one of the sharks!

Westwood X Opening

Three large human ships sailing from Ramsgate, Broadstairs & Margate to westwood X - a new shopping centre. 90 costumed kids, dancers, lotsof speed face painting & sunshine!

Eye Opener

'Listen' was part of the Eye Opener exhibition at Gallery IOTA 2004, Ramsgate
Nature is trying to communicate with her, encouraging her to trust herself, be at peace with herself, the answers are all inside encased in a ball of silence.

Ramsgate Seafront Mural

Started in October 2003 with a local youth group, finally got finished in the summer of '04. Now proudly adornes the seafront. This was one of the boards done with a group from the Ramsgate school. I loved the colours, I used the stamping & masking tape technique which looks great close up and far away.

Beautiful

Again this pickie was taken in my 'garden' in Whistable, I was mesmerised at the beauty of the shapes and colours of the whole flower...so much so that it adorned my screen saver for over a year, the icons curving round the middle section. The image is simply called 'Beautiful'

Pickies of Work over the last three years......

Yep, I'm going to try and put a comprehensive blog of work done over the last few years. So I can reasure myself of my talents! This pickie is named 'heart' and was taken in my extensive garden in Whistable (all of three window boxes!) The colours inside this flower were breathtaking......oh to be a bee!

Dane Valley/Sure Start Mural

Oh this was a great one, I really like taking kids drawings and making them bigger. I loved the legs on the sheep, they are just skipping along...as they do!

Dane Valley Sure Start Mural - Open workshops with kids to design and paint their own board around the building site of the new Sure Start Building to discourage graffiti and to brighten the place up. OK so on this particular day, there were no kids and three artists with paint......so what can you expect! Got sunstroke from painting in bright sunlight on white boards....had to use tarpaulin as a tent.

Home Education Pom Poms

Made these with some kids educated at home - it was a nice group, but oh how they moaned as I showed them how to weave the wool through the card. 'It takes aaages!' and 'is it nearly there?' rang out in the class every few minates. It took alot of encouragement and small talk - but it was well worth it, the faces of the kids when they were finally put them together - were bursting with pride and surpise. The animals seem to look a bit surprised to be here too!