Kerry is a life-long stitcher, has taught art and textiles at Abingdon and Witney College, Didcot Girls School and in communtiy education. She has been interested in archaeology since school and is developing an art practice associated with walking the landscape and exploring its history.

'The landscape around us has been shaped by thousands of years of human activity. Walking through that landscape I perceive subtle aspects of my surroundings which have been fashioned by previous inhabitants. Recording textures, mapping memories of travel routes, suggesting echoes of previous generations and the elusive secrets of the land using fabric and stitch, I aim to interpret the atmosphere of place. Colour schemes are derived from dyeing with plant material native to the walk locations, imbuing each piece with a sense of that locality. Patterns stitched into the textiles and papers are taken from the surfaces trodden beneath my feet or patterns and textures observed in the buildings around me. The meditative execution of hand stitches simulates steps through the landscape and allows a reliving of the walk experience. Fragments of semi-transparent fabrics patched together reflect the veils of time obscuring the evidence of the past, the layers revealed in archaeological strata and the continuing subliminal influence of history on the environment we experience today.'