Exhibitions & Commissions
2016 Fine Art Quilt Masters, The Festival of Quilts, NEC, Birmingham 11-14 August
2016 Warwickshire Open Studios 24 - 30 July
2016 ICHF Fashion & Embroidery NEC, Birmingham 17-20 March
2015 Contemporary Craft Open, Unit Twelve Gallery (prize winner)
2014 'Happy Ever After', Nuneaton Art Gallery
2014 In The Wool Shed, East Chase Farm, Warwickshire
2013 ‘Traditional Twisted’, Unit Twelve Gallery, Staffordshire
2012 'At Home' Studio Sixty, Kenilworth Warwickshire
2010 The Textile Collective, Wildes Wine Bar, Leamington Spa
2007 - 2011 The Festival of Quilts, NEC, Birmingham (Art Quilts prize winner 2007)
2006 Fibre Artists, Jefferson Gardens, Leamington Spa
2005 Mint, 70 Wigmore street, London
2005 William Ball Kitchens, Basildon, Essex
2004 Contemporary Crafts Fair. MAC, Birmingham
2004 The Gallery, Earlsdon, Coventry (solo)
2004 Fibre Artists,Warwick Museum, Warwickshire
2002 At The Tea Factory, Warwick Museum (solo)
2000 British Crafts, Chiswick, London
2000 Higgins & Ellis Christmas Exhibition, London
1999 'At the table', private commission, Germany
1995 The Gallery, Cork St., London
1994 The Custard Factory, Birmingham
1993 All Around The House, Drumcroon Arts Centre, Wigan
1992 In Stitches, Gawthorpe Hall, Lancashire
Freelance Design Work
1992 - 1996 Lewis and Lewis Design, London
2008 - 2010 Love & Hope Children's Clothing, London
Teaching
2015 Statford-Upon-Avon Arts Society
2014 The Beetroot Tree, Derbyshire
2013 Sew Arty, Kenilworth, Warwickshire
2013 Unit Twelve Gallery, Staffordshire
2013 Studio Sixty, Kenilworth
2001 St. Johns Museum, Warwick
1997 University of Northampton
1995 Loughborough University
1995 to date Warwickshire College
1994 Kidderminster College
Education
1994 MA Textiles U.C.E Birmingham.
1992 BA (Hons) Embroidery Manchester Polytechnic
1989 BTec ND Printed Textile Design
Publications
Embroidery Nov/Dec 2011
Embroidery July/Aug 2012
Embroidery Jan/Feb 2015
Talking with Maria in her home studio...
It is soon clear that her work is a repository where emotions can be stored or released through the act of making.
Jo Hall, Editor of Embroidery magazine