Educational Work 

While working as a professional English as a Second Language (ESOL) teacher in Oxford, I pioneered silk painting as a medium for instruction, tapping into ethnic minority women’s pre-existing skills in the textile crafts to attract them to formal learning. Students created silk painted literacy resources for their teaching centres while improving their own English in the process. This led on to many collaborative projects with Family Learning and community groups, museums and institutions like the Homeless Hostels or Campsfield Immigration Detention Centre in Oxford.