Most people collect things - some collections are small, some colossal. it does not have to be a total obsession it may be a casual interest which develops in to something more. Fifteen people come together to exhibit in the Eldon Gallery University of Portsmouth 

Birds seem to have had an unconscious  entrance in to my work, maybe the fascination with collections seen at the Natural History Museum London in my childhood. The birds are a collection of many. I have acquired the habit of accumulation which may act as the replacement for my childhood of lost homes and possessions .

Window display for French's Dairy Bloomsbury London 

Twelve ceramic rabbits made from paper clay 

decorated with Parisian Jeweller  Phillipe Ferrandis'  new collection 2010

Sharing aspirations for Peace  with UNICEF.  Through a series of printmaking workshops for Burundian and Congolese refugees with Dr Lyndsay Bird "Voices for Peace " was published translating stories in to images.The book highlights their plight and gives hope for the future. Further workshops continued with Save the children in Columbia , Sierra Leone and Liberia.

February 2011 . Initial sketches to promote Zippo's Circus 

An  editioned collection of 50 individual home-based memories or musings in the form of a die- cut house complete with chimney stacks and five moveable flaps at the rear.

the book will form part of the Exhibition "Travelling Motionless" by Jonathan Ward  West Gallery  Quay Arts Centre Newport Isle of Wight 23 April -June 9th 2011

Many of us might consider the objects as companions to our emotional lives : they may be provocations for others to make connections which become the starting point for discussion.

Cultures of Collecting comprises an exhibition of personal collections 

in March 2011 at SPACE and Eldon Gallery, University of Portsmouth,

An accompanying symposium and series of workshops 23 - 24th March which reflects the history and culture of collecting http://www.port.ac.uk/research/caad/collect3/