I am a textile artist creating contemporary fibre art deeply connected to nature, material and time. My work grows out of a close connection with the rural environment where I live and work. 

I am drawn to the marks and traces left by natural processes, and to how these observations can become textures, surfaces, layers and forms rather than direct representations of what I see.

​Through a material-led approach, I create wall-based fibre art that explores connections between landscape, material memory and the traces of time.

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Artistic Practice  

I am interested in biodiversity, sustainability and the cultural knowledge embedded in textile heritage. I value traditional knowledge and textile skills, while also exploring how they can evolve within our contemporary world. 

My work is rooted in a desire to create a deeper connection between art, nature and the materials we use. Rather than simply replicating nature, I translate its presence — growth, change and seasonal movement — into textile and material language.

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Material & Process

I work mainly with natural fibres and textile waste, alongside other materials that enter my practice through experimentation. Through processes such as felting, weaving, tufting and rust dyeing, I allow these materials to change, mark and influence the work.

I am particularly interested in the traces that materials can carry as they are transformed through time and making. In my felted work, I use “homegrown” fibre, working with materials whose origins I know. The wool carries the traces of where and when it was grown, connecting the work to place, landscape and the changing seasons. Reclaimed textiles have their own previous lives, while rust can record the presence of an object through the marks it leaves behind. These traces of place, use and time become part of the work. 

Rather than always working towards a fixed outcome, I let the material and the process guide me and shape the direction of the work.

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A close relationship with material, time and transformation shapes my slow, process-led practice. I am interested in the connections between maker and material, landscape and body, tradition and contemporary expression. 

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For me, making is a way of exploring what materials hold and what they can become.

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