I work in my summerhouse studio overlooking fields and my garden. A background in woven textiles with painting taught me to look closely and discover what is the landscape, shapes textures, lines, and colour. Walking in the landscape whatever the weather with my dogs, I observe and record in visual memory, images which spill out on to the page when I take time to work in a sketchbook. My sketchbooks are a place to be free and explore, to work through my imagination and spark ideas for pieces of work with painting and stitch. I have found a way to work with drawing in machine stitch on to surfaces I create using cloth, paper, and acrylic paint. In my looking I edit the landscape, capturing fleeting fragments which are interpreted in my work.

I have a background in art and textiles teaching, I offer workshops and talks to Art and Textile groups, these are constructed around my working practice with an emphasis on individual creative development.

I take inspiration from the landscape around me, land, sky and trees and the sea when I have the opportunity. A range of pieces will be exhibited reflecting the Oxfordshire landscape and my deep love of the sea. In addition to wall art pieces I make small artwork brooches, reflections on landscape in colour and texture, each of these is unique. For the exhibition, a special series of brooches reflecting the colours and textures of Witney Blankets.
Derived from intense looking, my work often appears abstract, flowing lines and intuitive marks capture the essense of what I see. My palette is earthy, muted and harmonious; raw sienna, yellow ochre, my yellows, burnt sienna a red and a mixture of blues, primary cyan, cobalt and Paynes grey used with raw umber to capture landscape in autumn and winter. I find green a difficult colour to work with, I'm working with it in my sketchbooks and glimpses are appearing in some of my pieces.