| As a textile designer I love to explore the use of traditional stitch and print with its narrative qualities. More unusual items such as metal, wire and paper are also used where relevant. My work reflects on the recycling ethos and the use of well-worn domestic textiles and vintage fabrics.
My work is innovative and contemporary and many pieces are one-offs or commissioned for individuals. I am inspired by my surroundings along with family and community life, these individual works of art hold a quirky humour and reflect on childhood, within a close community.
The involvement with textiles is exclusively a human experience and often the smell and feel will evoke recollections of love and comfort, tiny buttons on a baby’s coat or an abandoned shoe can stir our emotions. I hope you will experience some of these things whilst looking at my work.
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