Victoria Park Estate

Acrylic on canvas
80cm x 100cm

Graduated 1984 Wimbledon School of Art First class degree in Fine Art. Exhibitions the UK and USA including The National Portrait Gallery London, The Royal Academy, The Royal Festival Hall, The Whitechapel .A prize-winner seven times for The Wirral Society of Arts at The Williamson Art Gallery Merseyside.

Has been featured in Cheshire Life Magazine, Manchester Evening News, Has Artwork in the permanent collection of The Victoria and Albert Museum National Art Library, Stockport Council and private collections.

Solo exhibitions include Salisbury Arts Centre, Bayham Abbey in East Sussex sponsored by English Heritage, Direct Line Insurance Manchester, Stockport Art Gallery and Buxton Museum

Judge for The Stockport Open Exhibition 2018 and on the selection panel for The Stockport Art Gallery Exhibition programme.

Work is of the urban North West, and parts of the coast of Britain

A teacher of art at Aquinas College, her studio is in Stockport.

Victoria Park council estate was built in Offerton, Stockport between 1950 and 1966 on the site of a park. I was excited by its magnificent trees its clumps of foliage flattening to almost silhouette shapes against the sulphur yellow sky. Its early cladding on the low rise blocks suggest a mosaic effect in purples and grey greens.

The elongated communal space is surprisingly devoid of people with a carpet like fringe of railings surrounding an inaccessible garden.

My inspiration for this painting came from a print made in1956 by Ian Fraser ARCA who had etched a Victorian square surrounded by railings.