ABOUT 

Hang nature on your walls: my prints take you for a walk and invite you to appreciate the landscape and experience the emotions it brings.

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I spend my happiest moments outside, whatever the weather, walking and sketching in the département de l'Oise in France where I live (I am currently based at Crépy-en-Valois). My prints aim at conveying my love and wonder of nature and its beauty, its changing states throughout the seasons and how they echo the human condition and influence our emotions.

 

I was first introduced to printmaking by my artist daughter. Since then, I have been enjoying every step in my journey into the vast and diverse world of printmaking. The very essence of printmaking, which allows to produce ‘multiples’, is at the heart of the amazement and relish I experience from the process.

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I have a long first career as a teacher in adult education (very useful to run printmaking workshops!), training trainers and in human resources development. I graduated from Middlesex University (UK) in 1990. I have been making art as a fulfilling activity since I was little.

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Connecting with other artists and printmakers and sharing my art with print enthusiasts has become the passion of my life and a great source of personal development and resilience. Printmaking is also an active way for me to do something useful and take part in movements aiming at helping those in need (be it of peace or relief). I feel my life is richer and more meaningful since I embraced this art.

 

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GROUP EXHIBITIONS - MINIPRINT COMPETITIONS - ART FAIRS

2023​

• Coming soon: Saint-Leu Arts Expo, Saint-Leu-la-Forêt, France - November

• Coming soon: Les mots en l'Aire (festival of librairies), Chantilly, France - October

• Coming soon: European Heritage Days, Senlis, France - 16th and 17th September

• Coming soon: 43rd Mini Print International of Cadaques, Spain - from June (then Wingfield, UK and Bages, France)

• Coming soon: Miniprint competition Kazanlak, Bulgaria - June & July

• European Artistic Crafts Days: open studio, exhibition in Anne de la Forge’s studio, Gouvieux, France - 1st and 2nd of April

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2022

• Noël à l’atelier: open studio, exhibition in Anne de la Forge’s studio, Gouvieux France - 9th, 10th, 11th December and 16th, 17th, 18th December

• 7th edition of the Salon International des Métiers d'Art (SIMA), 18th, 19th and 20th November 2022, Lens (FR - 62)

• Brocante et créateurs au jardin (Parcs et Jardins de l'Oise) 16th to18th September 2022, Fontaine Chaalis, France

• Le défi du Galop, Hippodrome, Compiègne France - June 2022

• 42nd Mini Print International of Cadaques, Spain - from June (then Wingfield, UK and Bages, France)

• Miniprint competition Kazanlak, Bulgaria - June & July

• En noir et bleu, selected works, studio of Marine Fargetton,Paris - April - September

• European Artistic Crafts Days: open studio, exhibition in Anne de la Forge’s studio, Gouvieux, France - April

2021

• Noël à l’atelier: open studio, exhibition in Anne de la Forge’s studio, Gouvieux France - December

• European Heritage Days: open studio, exhibition in Anne de la Forge's studio, Gouvieux France - September

• Mini print competition 22nd Grenchen Triennale, Switzerland - September

• 4th Mini print Cantabria competition, Spain - September - December

• “Fête de l’estampe” - open studio (home studio), Gouvieux France - May

• European Artistic Crafts Days: open studio, exhibition in Anne de la Forge’s studio, Gouvieux, France - April

2020

• Noël à l’atelier: open studio, exhibition in Anne de la Forge’s studio - December

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AWARDS 

• 2021 Print day in May: Artisan Media winner #2 for Maylody, 3 colours reduction print

• Selected for the 2021 Prinstersolstice print exchange

• 2021 Printersolstice Speedball art inky prize for Lueur d’espoir, 4 colours reduction print

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MEMBERSHIP

• Member of People of Print since April 2022

• Member of The Printmakers Collective ​ since September 2021

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ART ACTIVISM

• Since october 2019, quarterly participation in the One of many postcard movement, fundraiser launched by John Pedder ; sending an original linocut printed postcard to people making a donation to a cause of their choice

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