2023

December. Spring Gallery. Winter Small Works Show. Cheltenham

Autumn. Crumps Barn Studio. Cirencester

October. ArtCan HOME Department Store. Brixton

June to October. SOLO EXHIBITION Beauport Gallery. Bannatyne Hotel, Hastings

July. ARTIST IN RESIDENCE. Nature in Art, Gloucester

June. Cheltenham Open Studios  Spring Gallery, Cheltenham

June. SCYTHIA Ivano-Frankivs’k, Ukraine. 11th International Mini Textile and Fibre Art Exhibition

June. SCYTHIA Ivano-Frankivs’k, Ukraine. 3rd International Micro Textile and Fibre Art Exhibition

March - April ArtCan ‘The Power of Pencil’ ArtCan Virtual Gallery. Curated by Cath Stoker.

February ‘23 to February ‘24. ArtCan ENSEMBLE 02 Kroll Offices in Paris

April. ‘Scar’ The House of Smalls. Chipping Camden

March. ‘Walk the Line’ The House of Smalls. Chipping Camden

March. ARTIST IN RESIDENCE. SOLO EXHIBITION Bannatyne Hotel, Hastings

2022

169th Annual Open Exhibition. RWA Bristol

The Small Works. Spring Gallery. Cheltenham

Broadway Arts Festival. Broadway

The Journey. Bannatyne Hotel. Hastings

ARTIST IN RESIDENCE Nature in Art. Gloucester.

Cheltenham Group of Artists. Gardens Gallery, Cheltenham

Friends of the RWA Friends’ Exhibition. Create Centre, Bristol

SOLO EXHIBITION   Painswick Rococo Garden.  Garden Drawings and Paper Textiles

ARTIST IN RESIDENCE Brisons Veor, Cape Cornwall. Artist in Residence

‘In the Making’ Beauport Gallery, Bannatyne Hotel, Hastings

2021
PureArt360.2 Magazine and Live Interview 
‘Brooching the Subject’  Timeless Textiles. Newcastle East. Australia
The Old Lock Up Gallery Cromford Derbyshire

Restrictions. Clayhill Arts, Somerset.

‘Elemental’. Mixed Exhibition. Lingwood Samuel, Godalming  
‘Material Nature’.  Mixed exhibition. PURE Arts Group
ARTIST IN RESIDENCE.  Nature in Art, Gloucester
Broadway Arts Festival
PureArt360.3 Magazine and Live Interview 
Cheltenham Open Studios Artist in Residence. Painswick Rococo Gardens
RWA Bristol 168th Open Exhibition
The Small Works Show. Spring Gallery, Cheltenham
The Winter Show. The Old Lock Up Gallery, Cromford Derbyshire

2020
ING Discerning Eye 2020. Mall Galleries.
South West Academy of Fine and Applied Arts. ‘Reflections’ drawings and paper textiles.

PureArt360Live interview with Lesley Samms. 25th September 2021

The Derwent Drawing Art Prize
Timeless Textiles Newcastle, NSW, Australia.

2019
ING Discerning Eye 2019. Mall Galleries.  Feathered Haven
SOLO EXHIBITION Prema Uley, Gloucestershire. Landscapes and related paper textiles
Encounters. Cheltenham Christian Arts Festival
Cheltenham Open Studios
ARTIST IN RESIDENCE Nature in Art, Gloucester

2018
ING Discerning Eye 2018. Mall Galleries
166th Annual Open Exhibition. RWA
‘Seeking the God Beyond.’ Collaborative project with author JP Williams. Monochrome Drawings
ARTIST IN RESIDENCE Nature in Art, Gloucester

2017
165th Annual Open Exhibition. RWA
ARTIST IN RESIDENCE Nature in Art, Gloucester
50 years of Cotswolds AONB. Corinium Museum, Cirencester
Wings. Cheltenham Christian Arts Festival. Prizewinner. Exhibitor. Workshops
Cheltenham Open Studios

2016
164th Annual Open Exhibition. RWA
Treasure. Cheltenham Christian Arts Festival. Prizewinner. Curator. Exhibitor
David Shepherd Wildlife Artist of the Year. Mall Galleries
ARTIST IN RESIDENCE Nature in Art, Gloucester

2015
Cheltenham Open Studios
163th Annual Open Exhibition. RWA
David Shepherd Wildlife Artist of the Year. Mall Galleries
ARTIST IN RESIDENCE Nature in Art, Gloucester
Worcester Cathedral. Cheltenham Group of Artists

2014
162nd Annual Open Exhibition. RWA
Art in Action. Oxford. Demonstrator for Nature in Art
ARTIST IN RESIDENCE Nature in Art, Gloucester

2013
161st Annual Open Exhibition. RWA
ARTIST IN RESIDENCE Nature in Art, Gloucester
Cheltenham Open Studios

2012
Summer Exhibition. RHS, Harlow Carr, Harrogate
ARTIST IN RESIDENCE Nature in Art, Gloucester
Faith in Art. Christchurch, Cheltenham

2011
Cheltenham Open Studios
ARTIST IN RESIDENCE Nature in Art, Gloucester
Art in Action. Oxford. Demonstrator for Nature in Art

2009
Cheltenham Open Studios
ARTIST IN RESIDENCE Nature in Art, Gloucester

2007
Cheltenham Open Studios
155th Annual Open Exhibition. RWA, Bristol

Historical
1981-1985.  Member of Fibre Art. Group Exhibitions held in UK
1981-1993.  Actively involved in the 62 Group of Textile Artists
Group Exhibitions in the UK and Japan
1982-1985.  Stitch-Design. Isle of Dogs. Exhibitions Co-ordinator. Lecturer. Exhibitor
1983.  Paper.  British Crafts Centre, London
1985.  Paper Standing Stones. One Woman Show. Anatol Orient. Covent Garden
1985-1988.  Exhibitions in UK, Papua New Guinea and Australia
1985-1988.  The National Arts School. Port Moresby. Papua New Guinea
1992-2002.  Living and working in Tonbridge. Regular Exhibitions and Workshops in Kent
2002-2024.  Currently living, and working from a studio in a very small Cotswold Village

Education
1981  BA (Hons) Fine Art Embroidery. Manchester Polytechnic
1978  Foundation in Art and Design. Cheltenham School of Art