EDUCATION
2016 - 2017 Diploma of Ceramics (distinction) - NSI Brookvale TAFE
1991 - 1994 Graduate Diploma in Business - Tourism Management (credit) UTS
1982 - 1986 Bachelor Landscape Architecture UNSW
1976 - 1981 Ascham School
exhibitions
2019 Home Affairs, Manly Gallery
2019 Little Things, Saint Cloche, Paddington
2019 Australian Ceramics Open Studio, Tramshed Potters Club
2019 Tiny Sketchbook, Brooklyn Art Library
2018 Balance NSI TAFE Ceramics
2018 The 100 Day Project Global Meet Up, Sydney
2017 Flow NSI TAFE Ceramics
2017 Little Things, Saint Cloche, Paddington
2016 Elemental, NSI TAFE Ceramics
2016 Newport Sculpture Trail
2016 Little Things, Saint Cloche, Paddington
2016 What the home means to you, Link Housing
2015 Touch, TAFE Student Ceramics
2015 Saltwater, Manly Gallery
2015 Warringah Printmakers Exhibition
2013 Sketchbook Project, Brooklyn Art Library
2011 Map my Summer competition
2010 Pittwater Artspace, Avalon
2009-12 Open Studio - Avalon
2008 Warringah Art Prize
2008 Royal Easter Show Sydney
2007 Royal Easter Show Sydney
2007 Group Show Avalon
AWARDS
2017 Graduating Student Award, NSI TAFE
2016 Design65 Prize, Newport Sculpture Trail
2008 HC Photography, Royal Sydney Show
2007 HC Photography, Royal Sydney Show
art tuition
Diploma of Ceramics - NSI Brookvale TAFE
Wheel Throwing - Cameron Williams
Children’s Book Illustration, Sydney University - Wayne Harris, Donna Rawlins
Drawing Story Workshop - Andrew Antoniou
Drawing and Painting - Sally Horton
Paint Mojo Workshop - Tracy Verdugo
Drawing with Thread & Stitching off the Page - Alex Falkiner
Urban Sketching & Architectural Sketching - Liz Steel
Woodturning - Northern Beaches Woodturners
Printmaking - Warringah Printmakers
Acting Essentials - NIDA
Silver - Tabitha Higgins
Glass - Penel Bigg
Life Drawing - Jenny Hall
Colour and Design - Nina Matthewson
Mixed Media - Meredith Rasdall
online courses
Creative Courage - Stephanie Levy
Flying Lessons - Kelly Rae Roberts
Just Draw It - Koosje Koene
Bloom True - Flora Bowley
The Delivery Room - Jessica Serran
Gentle Women's Uprising - Kamala Murphey
Creative Alchemy - Victoria Fann
Sketchbook Skool - Danny Gregory, Koosje Koene
28 Days of the Writerly Life - Shari Killian Daniels
Conscious Booksmith - Christine Manson Miller
A Year of Fairytale & A Year of Yellow - Carla Sonheim
Making Art a Practice - Cat Bennett & Carla Sonheim
Doings of a Doodle & Between Speech & Silence - Diane Culhane & Carla Sonheim
arts management
NAVA - Arts Grants Workshop
Manly Gallery - Joshua Yeldham workshop
teaching
Where do I fit on the Internet
Blogging for Beginners
Creating Online
Twilight Sketching
Art, Yoga & Ayurveda Day Retreat
Private Art Tutoring
Adult & Children’s Art classes
Birthday Parties & other events.
collaborations
personal projects
Coffeeosophy (coffee sketches)
Minutes by the Sea (film)
Winter Dreaming (blog)
Stellar Stories (stories)
420 Characters (short story group)
1000 Words for Summer (multi-media)
Sketchbook Project (a summer story)
Poetry (poetry, photography, art)
published books
2019 A Visual Dictionary, Brooklyn Art Library (painting)
2018 Creative Alchemy by Victoria Fann (story)