I tell traditional stories from around the world as well as stories of my own. I have worked in many schools for the last 15 yrs, also museums, libraries, colleges and for arts organisations.
As well as performance, I combine storytelling with working creatively with stories and poetry, allowing children and adults to discover clues to their own words. Inset and training sessions can also be arranged.
I have been a storyteller in residence at the Horniman Museum, London and the Museum of East Asian Arts, Bath. For several years I was Chair of the Society for Storytelling, editor of Arts School - an arts education newsletter and coordinator of Rural Arts Wiltshire, an organisation, which brings professional performance to rural venues.
I have worked with Arts Together and Wiltshire Social Services to provide reminiscence and creative-writing workshops for older people. In 2000 I worked with two visual arts colleagues from ArtSpark on a Year of the Artist residency.
In 2002 I was a writer in residence with the Arts Council at St Werburghs Primary school in
During the spring of 2003 I worked with Artspark again. and Wren Hall Education Centre at
Later the same year I worked with The American Museum, Bath and pupils from 10 local primary schools, producing poems and stories that evoke the experience of a 17th Century family beginning a new life in America.
Also in 2003 I worked with Claire Cox in primary schools in Bicester, Oxon to produce poems exploring childrens’ sense of place. These have become part of a Bicester A-Z (a Common Ground initiative), to inform public artist Gordon Young with his work in Bicester’s
From Feb-July 2004 I was artist in residence at
I am currently one of a team of eleven artists working with Multi A and Bristol Education Action Zone in primary schools.
