About Me TEST!

My studio and workshop are in the Cambridgeshire fens, where sky and land often merge in mist, dust or water. This may have affected my approach to making and scale of work!

The nature and outcome of my work can be very varied. The tree, pathway or river may be the form; the needle, thread or fabric may be the tool; but the active process and relationship between the elements chosen in creating and the creators' work are my priority.

This is what I aim to share with participants and audience, whether they are taking part in workshops, collaborating with me or experiencing large installations or exhibition pieces.

I really enjoy collaborating and making work to commission. 

I make solo work for exhibition, presentations, and as part of longer term projects in collaboration with other artists and practitioners 

If you are interested in purchasing my work please go to the Shop page.

If you are interested in collaborative working please contact me, I look forward to finding out what your ideas might be.

I am interested in sense of place, why people feel 'At Home' in a locality and how they make use of this and how connected they are to the more-than-human inhabitants of the locality. Through my work I aim to provide a medium which will allow positive expression of community and environment its’ history and future; raising awareness of long term sustainable development to create spaces that enhance lives both visually and practically. My work is influenced by and benefits from environmental and community projects, I deliberately balance periods of time spent working with groups to working alone.

I trained in woven and constructed textiles in London and Scotland, then worked in the spinning and weaving industry as a self-employed designer for several years. A move to rural East Anglia brought me to explore and understand a combination of constructed and natural landscapes, what David Bellamy calls the 'Natural Manscape'. 

I worked for a short time in Bangladesh and experienced similar engineering solutions to water and environment in very different situations. This taught me more about human interaction with the natural world and problem solving.