WELL, AS SOME OF YOU MAY KNOW, I left Australia the day
after my last higher school certificate exam and I have lived in
England ever since. I don’t know that I would have done this
if my parents hadn’t bought me a one way ticket...
After an initial miserable year au-pairing in Brussels I
moved back to England and went to art college for 4 years.
The first year was in London doing a foundation course at a
college where sex, drugs and rock n roll was part of the
curriculum. Life became a lot more serious when I moved to
Canterbury to do a 3 year BA in Graphic Design.
Since then I’ve worked as a freelance designer. I spent 15
years living in London, renting desk space in and around Soho
and then I moved to Cambridge about 9 years ago. Although
I’ve done all kinds of publishing work, the bulk of my work
has always been for Classical Music publishers, designing
covers for sheet music.
Over the years I’ve worked for Boosey and Hawkes, Schott, Universal Edition, Fabers, Peters Edition,Novello, International Music Publications, Trinity College,
etc. I’ve worked for a couple of these publishers (Universal
and Booseys) for nearly 25 years.
A few years ago Universal Edition became my main client
as I now design the covers for the head office in Vienna as
well as the covers in London, so I am in daily contact with the
Austrians. Unfortunately, my German hasn’t seemed to
improve as a result... I’ve also been designing a lot of concert
programmes and posters lately.
Like the rest of you I sometimes think I’d like to do
something else other than be stuck behind a computer screen
all day, but – what???
I married Andrew in 1988 (a graphic designer like me) and
we had a girl in 1992 – Rebecca – who is now 14. We live in
Cambridge about 10 minutes walk from King’s College and
have a spare room if any of you want to come and visit!
Him indoors, outdoors
Exploring being the punk I never was at a party last week
Me indoors
Rebecca and me trying to cook
