I post regularly on Instagram @pleavergreen
After an Art Foundation course in Leamington Spa, I read English and Drama at Exeter University. I then studied under Percy (Margaret) Harris on the Motley Postgraduate Theatre Design Course at the Almeida Islington, London and subsequently, after 5 years of theatre design work, taught English and drama at the Grey Coat Hospital School in Westminster, London.
In 2006 I came to Bristol and, have been working as a professional artist since. I work from my studio built in 2009 by John Tinney
Artist Statement May 2024
I use fabric and thread to explore contemporary thoughts and ideas. My subject matter is varied; it is conversational rather than didactic exploring the relationship between fabrics, design and thoughts.
I often work in series; researching a subject matter and then exhibiting the results; I happen upon an area which interests me and develop a response through my medium.
Although I have worked on a range of themes, I am always interested in us and our relationship with our environment; our emotional connection with it and our responsibility to it. For example: capturing depleting landscapes and depicting our topographical memory of spaces and our place within them.
Inspired by numerous trips to Japan, I am looking for positive ways to explore these themes and have most recently been working on the traditional Japanese colour combinations worn seasonally, using repurposed kimono silks within my work to explore our potential for harmony within nature.
I live and work in Bristol and have exhibited both nationally and internationally. I show work with The Cube gallery in London
Shows
July 2008- Sept 2008 show at SlimbridgeWWT
June 2009 Contemporary Craft Fair at Bovey Tracey
Winner of Liberty fabric prize April 2009
June 2009- April 2010 Feature artist for CellMark (Sweden) 2008
July 2009 Quilt exhibited at the Design Museum Gothenburg Sweden in CellMark 25 years of artist collaboration exhibition (photograph above)
Oct/ Nov 2009 RWA Autumn Exhibition - Fan selected Button Phobia III selected
Oct 2009 Sustain - group show at The Space in Stroud
Jan/ Feb 2010 Button Phobia show at Harvey Nichols Bristol
June/ Aug 2010 Mona Bismarck Foundation Avenue de New York, Paris work contributing to the show: Boutons, artistic, historical and cultural phenomena
June 2010 The Contemporary Craft Fair Bovey Tracey
October 2010 Sustain at The Space in Stroud
December 2010 group show at Centrespace Bristol
April 2011 Spine at Bristol Old Vic April 2011 in tandem with Frankenspine by Theatre Damfino
Oct/Nov 2011 RWA Autumn Exhibiton- Tsunami 11/03/11 selected
November 2011 Spine at The Hip Gallery Southmead Hospital
January 2012 Spine at Bristol Old Vic in tandem with Mayday Mayday by Theatre Damfino
March - June 2013 Unintended Consequences solo show at Touchstones Rochdale
Oct 2013 Source film and promotional video for Table of Delights byTheatre Damfino at Bristol Old Vic
2014/15 a series of private quilt commissions
Oct 2015 Promotional film for Little Table of Delights by Theatre Damfino for BOV and tour
July- Dec 2015 A Few Words - commission exploring organ donation for Southmead Hospital
June 2017 Holburne Museum Bath with Royal High School commission to create an artwork reflecting 6th formers' thoughts about leaving school inspired by the museum's recent acquisition of the portrait of Arthur Atherley by Thomas Lawrence
Sept/ Oct 2017 - Colour- Mapping Japan WBAT series of pictures charting a journey through Japan through colour combinations
March 2018 - Consigned to Women's Hands - group show of contemporary textile artists Council House, Bristol
June 2018 - Soundscape planets series
Sept 2018 - March 2019 The Space Between an exploration of landscape and memory
March 2019 Bath Art Fair
May 2019 NSAT The Space Between
June 2019 selected for Identity by Handmade in Britain and exhibiting at Ashmoleon 13-16th June and Handmade Oxord (Waterperry Gardens) 26-29th June from the series Places I have been from Clothes I have worn
August 2019 working with The Gardener’s Lodge group at the Holburne Museum in Bath
September 2019 Green and Pleasant selected for RWA Autumn Show 167
October 2019 Places I have been from clothes I have worn -WBAT
December 2019 Christmas show Small Wonders at The Cube Gallery Marylebone
May 2020 selected for Broadway Arts Festival
2020-2021 I am continuing to show work at The Cube Gallery Marylebone and working towards an exhibition at Southmead Hospital in 2022
2021 The Affordable Art Fair in Battersea in July and Fresh Art Fair in Cheltenham in August
2022 Colour Combination Landscapes Southmead Hospital Jan/ Feb
2022 Battersea Affordable Art Fair February
2022 Spring Gallery Cheltenham An Artist’s Garden group show August
2022 New York Affordable Art Fair October
2022 London The Cube Gallery, London : Landscapes / group show November
Jan/Feb 2023 working with The Gardener’s Lodge group/ in association with the Holburne Museum and The Abbey in Bath
2023 New York Affordable Art Fair September
2023 Battersea Affordable Art Fair October
2023 Edinburgh Art Fair November
2023 working with The Gardener’s Lodge group/ in association with the Holburne Museum and The Abbey in Bath
2024 Travel: Research and development trip to Japan - ‘ Following the sakura’ ( Tokyo, Hakone, Osaka, Kyushu, Naoshima) - March / April
My intention is to hold an exhibition in response to this experience
2024 working with The Gardener’s Lodge group/ in association with the Holburne Museum and The American Museum in Bath (May)
Response to Japanese trip - work in progress/ May 2024