I am a Textiles Artist (occasional educator & writer), who is lucky enough to live in beautiful Cornwall. I make things out of scraps of fabric, torn up pieces of paper, fibres and thread as well as all things that sparkle. My theatre design training taught me many skills and I am still a magpie for all things new.
I am currently revisiting my love of textiles and exploring how I can hand stitch and glue materials together to create handcrafted illustrations, which I then tweak digitally. I combine these illustrations with creating 3D objects and often make strange (but cute) characters and creatures – I think I am a frustrated animator and would some day love to create a complete world for one of my characters to live in. when I dig out my sewing machine I use my costume skills to make small scale costumes for fashion dolls.
I am increasingly interested in how creativity affects our mind and body and how the act of creating can seemingly heal the past and transform our future. I have long suffered from an overactive imagination (that sometimes prevents me from sleeping), brought on in the main from years of digesting stories, from books as a child to films as an adult. I have an endless curiosity for how things are created and how they fit into the way the world works. I hope my artwork is testament to my enduring love affair with narrative and especially folklore, I hope to be a “weaver of fairy tales”.
