Geraldine spent her childhood in the Sudan, and was educated in England. She attended Art Colleges in Shrewsbury (Shropshire), qualifying in Painting and Lithography (under Richard Vicary), and Hornsey (London), attaining an Art Teachers' Certificate. In London she divided her week by working part-time as a stylist at a West End studio, and as an art teacher in three consecutive Comprehensive Schools. On moving to Bath she taught painting, printing and History of Art, again part-time, as she also worked in the Museum of Costume (now the Fashion Museum). It was the holdings in this magnificent Collection which prompted her M.Phil thesis (researched) about lithographic printing on textiles; she has also given talks on costume for some years. As a student she constantly recorded buildings, people at work, and dress - first in Shropshire and Wales (where her parents bought a Mill which they renovated) then in London: there she made studies of roads, their textures, footpaths, pavements, man-hole covers,and road workers. These early sketches have proved a rich source of pictorial information: she has freelanced to a greater or lesser degree since leaving Art College. Her early years   in the Sudan and journeys to Iran, Armenia, Georgia, and Russia were influential, as have been later travels to Eastern Europe by car, and to America. Latterly she has worked as a sculpture teacher at a College of Performing Arts, and taught at Bath University for the Lifelong Learning Division. Soon after moving to Bath she joined the Open University, and gained a First in BA(Hons), and she has been a Member of the Charted Society of Designers since 1986.   A clients list and samples of work undertaken by her are illustrated here,and she is willing to discuss commissions (however idiosyncratic) and her charges.     ©2007 Geraldine Marchand