In the Media- creativity consultant and Devon based visual artist, lutenist, author and speaker 

Ruby Prize judge - Budleigh Art Group 40th Exhibition

Jo as the Ruby Prize judge at Budleigh Art Group 40th Exhibition, here with category winner John Washington and Alan Cotton, president of the club.

Art Work featured in:

• Butcombe school (Clifton College) Magazine-artist residency report 1999
• Art in Devon, Spring 2007, page 5
• Art in Devon e-interview May 2007
• This is Devon, article 31/8/11
• cover, Budleigh Music Festival 2010
• ‘Family Cameos’ British Journal of Psychiatry (cover) Dec. 2009
• Press reports- regional include ‘Up Close’, 2011
• Northcott Theatre Brochure Cover/article, Autumn 2011
• ‘Making cyanotypes’- YouTube video by Devon Artist Network

Devon Open Studios 

- Interviews as artist

• BBC Devon website: Raising a glass to a life change, 15th October 2010
• Western Morning News, Article, July 17th 2010
• BBC Radio Devon, radio interviews with Richard Green, May 2009, Jon Govier, October 2010, with Matt Woodley (live) March 2013
• Interview with Bron Bernstein, Courtauld Institute MA History of Art, December 2019
• multiple podcast interviews from 2016-current - with Women in Psychiatry Special Interest group, Sharp Scratch, and others. 

In the media - health and creativity consultant, local history researcher and author
Jo has been on the BBC 50/50 expert speaker list-
interviews on health include:

You and Yours BBC Radio 4 with Winifred Robinson 2021
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BBC Radio 5 live- with Emma Barnard 2021

and also for , MindBody Radio, Idaho, USA, November 2019

Jo has recently given talks on the Lute to 

Devon History Society , May 2024

Fairlynch Arts Centre and Museum , AGM May 2024

Mother's Union , St Peter's Church, Budleigh Salterton June 2025

publications

Jo acted as a creativity consultant on a 6 minute animation film entitled '25 Women in Psychiatry' made under commission from the Women in Mental Health Special Interest Group of the Royal College of Psychiatrists in the UK. The film was directed by Inshra Russel of Studio Inku. It has received excellent critical reviews and is available to watch via the RCPsych website and the director at Studio Inku.