I trained in Fashion and Textiles at Hornsey College of Art, during the late 60’s and early 70’s. Following several years of working as a woven furnishings textile designer, combined with teaching adults constructed textiles, I took a two-year sabbatical. During that time my focus was on the handmade: City and Guilds Embroidery and Traditional and Modern Basketry. Then, as now, I enjoyed complete freedom of designing and making embroidered and manipulated textiles. For the past four years I have volunteered as a curator for the Maker’s Art range of handmade designer crafts sold in the Heath Robinson Museum shop, Pinner, Middlesex.

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My pieces are usually non-functional and are made to reflect specific themes. These themes can include the title of an exhibition being prepared for, current personal moods or simply responses to abstract combinations of materials and techniques. My work and choice of projects are still influenced by my training of working to design briefs, seasons, styles, colour moods and so I try to stretch these boundaries by adding elements of mystery, theatre and half suggested motifs. Where relevant I create separate text in prose poetry as part of the piece.

 

Techniques used include: hand and machine embroidery, weaving, tapestry, felt making, beading, eco-dyeing and printing.