Writing is something I got into later in life, before this, fitting around family life, I did quite a few art courses culminating in a degree in art and design. I did find that the area I shone in on my degree was writing, then illustration. I have always been driven to find balance and to be able to give my family quality time so it's natural that I've had more time to concentrate on art and writing later in life.

 

To my great surprise, Amberley Publishing approached me in 2013 asking me to write a book about Basildon. A very high honour indeed! I was previously a contributing researcher to Frances Clamp's book, Basildon, Our Heritage and also to the Basildon Heritage Trail. I wrote a blog about the research I did for the trail and the publishing company found it, leading to them asking me to write Basildon Through Time.​ I wrote the book in 2014 and Lost Basildon in 2019. I could see so much potential for Geraldine Evans's family story about The Barge in Vange that I wrote an article for Essex Life magazine in 2020.

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In 2023 I joined the Basildon Writers' Group and wrote a story that featured in their second anthology, It Happened in Essex 2: tall tales from the Basildon Writers' Group. All proceeds go to Basildon Hospital Radio (BHR 87.7). I'm very proud that my story based around the great North Sea flood of 1953, the worst natural disaster in modern British history, is in the fund-raising book. My story focuses on the Canvey area.

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If you'd like to see my art and design work you can visit my art website.

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