I am a freelance artist working mainly with my own handmade felt. I enjoy combining the craft of turning fibres into fabric with the art of translating the images and ideas in my head into a visual form that can be shared with an audience.

 

 

I studied Sculpture for three years and History of Art for one year as part of an Honours degree in Education and Art. In 1997 I  completed the four year City and Guilds course in Creative Studies and Embroidery Skills. Since then I have been a part-time tutor in feltmaking and also run freelance workshops.

 

The "Northern Legacy Series" stems from my interest in the contrasts and justapositions between the physical fragments and ruins of northern abbeys and the differences  between the bound and prescribed lifestyles of the monks and the unbounded concepts which they celebrated and strove to achieve. In my work I use mixed media toincorporate elements of all these ideas.

 

I use the "Wearable Art" pieces   as ways of having fun and developing my craft. I enjoy finding new ways to use fibres and images to create unique designs for myself and others.

 

When working with landscapes I am intrigued by the notion of there being "intangible textures" that we can see with eye and brain but that we can never experience through touch either because the object is too distant, the act of touching would destroy the surface or because the "surface" itself is an illusion. I love manipulating  the fibres  to create these "intangible textures" and make them  in some form accessible to touch and sight.