Exhibitions
2022 Sewing For Pleasure, NEC, Birmingham
2021 Interview with Arnolds Attic, YouTube
2021 Gallery at The Knitting & Stitching Shows
2021 Interview with TextileArtist.Org
2018 Sewing For Pleasure, NEC, Birmingham
2016 Finalist, Fine Art Quilt Masters, The Festival of Quilts, NEC, B'ham
2016 Warwickshire Open Studios
2016 ICHF Fashion & Embroidery NEC, Birmingham
2015 Prize winner, Contemporary Craft Open, Unit Twelve Gallery
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 Art Quilts, Prize winner, The Festival of Quilts, NEC, Birmingham
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 Solo show, At The Tea Factory, Warwick Museum
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
Coming Up
2025 Warwickshire Stitchers, Leamington Spa in November
2025 Littleheath Barn Studio, Bromsgrove in April
2024 Shed 76 1/2 Brighouse, West Yorkshire in May
2024 Hope & Elvis Welbeck, Nottinghamshire in April
Past
2022 Shed 76 1/2 Brighouse, West Yorkshire
2022 UCLAN University, Lancashire
2018 Creative Thread Workshops, Lancashire
2017 - 2019 Needle & Thread Workshops, Lincoln
2015 - 2024 Embroiders Guild/Quilters Guild/Stitch Groups around UK
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 - 2019 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
Cloth Stories, A.Ferguson, Batsford 2024
Textile Portraits, A.Kelly, Batsford 2023
Embroidery Nov/Dec 2021
Be Creative, Workbox May 2019
Textile Collage, M.Pattullo, Batsford 2016
Todays Quilter, issue 14 2016 
Embroidery Jan/Feb 2015
Embroidery July/Aug 2012
Embroidery Nov/Dec 2011
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