I am a freelance Community Artist. My specialist area is creative textiles - 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 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 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.