As someone with multiple talents and multiple passions, writing a neat, concise biography is never an easy task. My skills and current interests span several creative fields - art, education, writing - and I am interested in using these skills to create meaningful experiences, challenge thinking and touch hearts.

Originally from rural Aberdeenshire in NE Scotland, I studied undergraduate degrees in Music and Art and Design, at the Royal Academy of Music and Gray's School of Art respectively. I also hold an MA in Reconciliation and Peacebuilding from the University of Winchester and a PGDE in Art and Design Education from the University of Glasgow.  

I have worked in a wide variety of educational  contexts including work with The Arts Factory, Open Road, Aberdeen Art Gallery and Museums, SPINE Festival, The Peace Museum and The Holocaust Educational Trust as well as teaching in secondary schools and leading art retreats in southern Morocco. I have also worked as a musician and music educator for Sistema Scotland in the UK, and the Edward Said National Conservatory in the West Bank. 

As an artist, I have exhibited in numerous solo and group exhibitions (full list below). These have included the exhibition and accompanying book 'Pieces From A Broken Land' exploring my experiences of living and working in the Palestinian Territories. The illustrated book was my first, and I have since published a second short memoir of a disastrous attempt to single-handedly save nomadic culture in Israel's Negev desert. 

Alongside educational work, I continue to travel, paint and write as much as possible.

Exhibitions:

Summerhall Group Exhibition - Summerhall, Edinburgh 2025

Then and Now, VAS Centenary Show - Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh 2024

Winton Society Summer Exhibition - West Downs Gallery, Winchester 2023

Aberdeen Artist Society - Aberdeen Art Gallery, Aberdeen 2022

Long Division - Bosnian Embassy, London 2022

No Place Like Home - Footdee Community Hall, Aberdeen 2022

Khamsin - Online 2021

Identity - The Holy Art, London/Online 2021

Winter Showcase - Arts Depot, London 2020

Illustrating Anthropology - Royal Anthropological Society, London/Online 2020

10 x 10 - Junction Arts, Aberdeen 2018

Pieces From A Broken Land - Scottish Storytelling Centre, Edinburgh 2018

Pieces From A Broken Land - Aberdeen Arts Centre, Aberdeen 2017

I Am Woman - Scottish Storytelling Centre, Edinburgh 2013

Fabricate - Studio One, Edinburgh 2012