About Me

Paper Textile

As a young child, I loved making beautiful clothes for my dolls under the watchful and encouraging eye of my mum, her scrap bag contained wonderful fabrics which felt so good to my young fingers.

All my wild ideas were possible with her needle skills.  This passion, and possibly an obsession, with quality and attention to detail have remained with me. 

Whilst on my Foundation Course at Cheltenham College of Art, I began to realise that drawings are a vehicle to seeing, understanding and exploring subjects and concepts.  During my degree course in Fine Art Embroidery at Manchester Polytechnic my mind and eyes were opened, not only to a media that satisfied me, but also engaged the viewer. 

After graduating, I moved to London to continue developing my work, I was selected to join the 62 Group of Textile Artists.  For several years I enjoyed working closely with them. 

For 3 years I lived and worked in Papua New Guinea.  Time permitted me to work with the Textile Students at the National Arts School in Port Moresby, and provided me an opportunity to further develop ideas, skills and techniques.  A series of work on corals and underwater worlds was executed and exhibited in Oceania and Australia. 

Over the years I have doggedly worked on themes that are linked through geology, fossils, and woodlands and all contain an inner energy and faith. 

I have an overriding need to provide a well crafted and yet peaceful meditative art work.  I now live and work in a small Cotswold Village where my surroundings of woodlands and open vistas inspire me. 

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