Welcome to my website
This website is about me and my work. I work at what I love and live to be inspired by the work I do.
I’ve been an arts producer, writer, performer, theatre director, consultant. In 2021 I moved from Hebden Bridge in Yorkshire, where I had lived for 30 years, to a new life in Dumfries & Galloway, Scotland. New adventures, networks, projects.
This year (2025) I embarked on a new direction, an addition to my skillset which builds on my long experience as a theatre-maker; I trained as a Civil Funeral Celebrant and am offering ceremony design and delivery for traditional burials and cremations, specialising in natural burials and eco-funerals. More of an update on this soon.
Some themes which inform my life and work:
- Myths, dreams, goddesses, soil.
- Community and culture.
- The predicament of modernity’s destruction of environment and our responses to it – fear, grief, hope, love, humanity, rage.
- Doing death better – as a society and as individuals – how we prepare, talk about it and mark it.
- Place and land, our human disconnections and loss, and the stories that help us reconnect with the land we live on.
- The history of extraction – minerals, fossil fuels, land, bodies, species, culture – which has been the narrative of the global north.
- The paths I make with my walking.
In 2020 I was supported by Arts Council England to develop my creative practice. It happened under the umbrella title The Story of We and focussed on Social Dreaming as a process for uncovering a shared unconscious towards co-creation and collective dramaturgy. You can read about that here.
I recently joined the board of Trustees of The Stove Network in Dumfries and am passionate about arts organisations that work to create a dynamic culture around place, community and creativity.
