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Awards and Honours
The Amy Emms MBE Award for Services to Quilting
Honorary Member, The Quilters' Guild of the British Isles
The Jewel Pearce Patterson for International Quilt Teachers
City & Guilds Medal, First Prize for Excellence P&Q Part 1
2008
2007
1999
1993
Exhibitions
Passage - with 5 (Textile Group), Espace Bonnefoy, Toulouse, France
In Continuum - Solo Exhibition, Forge Mill Needle Museum, Redditch
Under African Skies - Quilt Museum & Gallery, York
Landscapes - New Horizons Textile Group, Cowslip Workshops, Launceston
Highlights - London Quilters, Swiss Cottage Library, London
Pegged Out Challenge - Quilts in the Garden, Uttoxeter
The Festival of Quilts - NEC, Birmingham
2010
Exhibitions
Contemporary Quilts - Rio Patchwork Design - Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Pearls, Pearls, Pearls - Quilt Museum & Gallery, York
Landscape - New Horizons Textile Group, Wimpole Hall, Cambridge
Working the Surface - Solo Exhibition at Festival of Quilts and the Knitting & Stitching Shows
Inspiration of a Nation - New Horizons Textile Group, Luton Museum
30 - Marsh Quilters, Wanstead, London
Hever Quilt Show - Hever Castle, Kent
2009
Exhibitions
Beyond Blue - Loch Lomond Quilt Show
Charles Henry Foyle Winners New Work - Forge Mill Needle Museum
2nd Salon Mediterranean de Patchwork - Port Bacares, France
The Festival of Quilts - NEC, Birmingham
Textiles in Focus - New Horizons Textile Group, Cottenham
Alchemy - New Horizons Textile Group. The Patchwork Association, Minerva Gallery, Llanidloes, Wales
Alchemy - New Horizons Textile Group. Cowslip Workshop, Launceston
Inspired To Stitch - New Horizons Textile Group. Stockwood Discovery Centre, Luton
2008
Midsomer Quilting Exhibition - Radstock Museum, Somerset
Kunstladen - Teachers Exhibition, Fano Quilt Festival, Denmark
Alchemy - New Horizons Textile Group, Wimpole Hall, Cambridge
World Shibori Network - Knitting & Stitching Show, Harrogate
Textiles in Focus - Cottenham
2007
Society of Designer Craftsmen - Mall Galleries, London
Artist in Residence - Abbots Hill School, Hemel Hempstead
Transitions - New Horizons Textile Group, Art Van Go Studio, Knebworth
Featured Artist and Teacher - Waterloo County Quilt Festival, Kitchener, Ontario, Canada
Voyage of Discovery - Quiltitude, Centre for European Patchwork, Salles d’Aude, France
Festival of Quilts - NEC, Birmingham
2006
Transitions - New Horizons Textile Group, Festival of Quilts, Birmingham
Surface Tension - Odyssey Textile Group, Knitting & Stitching Shows, London and Harrogate
4 x 4 - With Annette Claxton, Jennifer Hollingdale and Grit Traum, Hall Place, Bexley, Kent
Artist in Residence - Art Van Go Open studios event, Knebworth
2005
Numerous exhibitions, quilt shows and prizes, including:
Jewel Pearce Patterson Scholarship Exhibition and Faculty Showcase
International Quilt Festival - Houston, Texas, 2000
1st Prize Group Quilts
With New Horizons Textile Group, National Quilt Championships, Olympia, 1999
Joint 2nd prize for Technical Excellence in The Charles Henry Foyle Textile Award
Forge Mill Needle Museum, 1998
2nd Geometric Advanced and 2nd Embellished Advanced
National Patchwork Championships, Olympia, 1998
1st prize for Hand Quilting and Theme (Influenced by Japan)
for "Kamon 1" at G.B.Q.F, 1991
1985 - 2004