Studio visits

I’m always happy for people to visit my studio - I’m based in Nottingham, UK. The address is 40 Marshall Street, Sherwood, Nottingham NG5 4AF (the old Lee Glass building) - the entrance is round the corner on Hood Street (white door). Drop me a line here if you’d like to arrange a visit.

History

I've been a practising artist for over 35 years. I'm mostly self-taught and don't hold any formal art qualifications. Initially working in textiles and then moving into illustration, in recent years I’ve settled on painting as my preferred medium.

I’m named after the Bob Dylan song ‘Corrina, Corrina’. Currently living and working in Nottingham, UK, originally from Rochdale, Lancashire.

I was an only child with artist parents. Although I was good at art I ended up on a European Studies degree course at Hull University in 1987. I fancied the year living abroad but I dropped out of the course before that happened. I’m not academic in the slightest and the course bored and depressed me.

I went on the Enterprise Allowance Scheme in 1989, I was painting fabric and making it into cushion covers. In 1991 I moved to Hebden Bridge and spent a few weeks on a foundation course at Rochdale Art College where I learned how to do machine embroidery and that’s what I ended up doing for the next 14 years. Eventually I grew frustrated with sewing and fancied printmaking. However that required space and equipment that wasn’t available to me, so I bought a small graphics tablet and taught myself digital drawing with the aim of printing my own greeting cards.

For the for the next 10 years I worked as an independent greeting card publisher, doing the trade shows, getting agents, even landing a publishing deal. However the appeal of drawing on a screen started to wear thin and I realised I needed to create in a more hands-on, visceral way. I’ve always liked to paint and I felt the urge to do more. In 2018 I started doing more painting and wound down the card business.