I hail from the bonnie isles of Shetland in the far north-east of Scotland but have lived in Newcastle-upon-Tyne for the last 16 years. My first degree was in Information and Communication Management where I was very interested in how information is generated, presented and displayed for an electronic medium. This is where I began my interest in electronic publishing and website design. And indeed for the last 10 years I have been a Senior Lecturer at Northumbria University in Newcastle teaching just that - electronic publishing, website design, multimedia, hypermedia and graphics design.

But I realised that I needed something more, and wanted to study design - as graphics is my real passion. So I undertook and recently finished an MA in Design, Multimedia and Graphics at Sunderland University - and I'm so glad I did. I love spending time out and about with a camera and teach on a host of modules which cover digital design for many different types of student.

Things never stand still and I can quite easily lose myself to a computer screen creating digital designs for days at a time. Most of my time is taken up with work but I do also do freelance and commission work. All I can say is - thank God they invented Photoshop, Illustrator and Dreamweaver amongst other applications!