Sculptor and designer with a thematic focus on landscape, archaeology and visual memory. Many exhibitions at solo, regional and national levels alongside an educational career in Scotland and England, including seven years as lecturer and director of studies in art and design education at the University of Warwick and three years as head of the department of Arts, Design and Performance at Manchester Metropolitan University.

Doctoral research on the interplay of visual and verbal arts, with associated papers delivered at international conferences in Finland, Canada and Portugal. Illustrated presentations on archaeology and art at Brora Community Learning Centre in November 2004 and a second series offered in the University of Aberdeen’s Highland Programme in November 2005.

Born in Edinburgh and educated at Ellon Academy, Aberdeenshire, and subsequently at colleges and universities north and south of the Border. Returned to Scotland in 1997 after eleven years in Warwickshire and Cheshire. Deep family roots in Sutherland and a converging interest in local history and landscape, extended by studies of past cultures on Aberdeen University’s Certificate Course in Field Archaeology and a Master’s Degree in Archaeology and Heritage at the University of Leicester.