I am a freelance Community Artist. My specialist area is creative textiles - natural dyeing, felt making, stitching, printing, image transfer, knitting, weaving, patchwork and quilting. However, I have also designed and delivered projects involving, drawing, collage, recycled materials, photography (pinhole, digital and film based), and image manipulation.

I am pleased to work at The Wimbledon College of Art where, on a part time basis, I run the College Costume Department's Dye Room . I have wide and varied experience of running workshops with children and community groups both in the UK and internationally. I am also an experienced Arts Projects Manager. I have been responsible for the design and delivery, of a wide range of community arts projects. I have worked with schools, community groups and voluntary organisations and I am CRB checked.

I love colour , texture, found objects, pre-used papers & fabrics and old & beautiful objects that were built to last. I like to work with discarded materials and objects with a history, to inform my work including letters, photographs, clothes and textiles. I aim for my work to be contemporary, beautiful, delicate, and subtle, inspired by the past but with an optimism for the future. I want my work to reflect the quality and workmanship of the pre ‘throw away' society.

I enjoy the work of artists and designers including India Flint for her use of eco friendly dyeing techniques, Cy Twombly for his use of colour and mark making, Kurt Schwitters collages, Robert Rauschenberg for incorporation of photographic images, Patrick Heron for colour and Christian Boltanski for the fragility and sheer beauty of his work, Hussein Chalayan for his ideas and workmanship, Russell Sage and Jessica Ogden for their use of old and recycled fabrics, Janet Bolton for her composition, stitching and colour, Dawn Dupree for colour and printmaking, the work of quilt artists Nancy Crow and Joan Schulze and the understated beauty achieved by many Japanese textile artists.