I want my work to capture the essence of the subject matter and to make it come ‘alive’ by using textural materials and hand stitch. My home is filled with textiles mostly from China, India and early European and English embroidery, so it became the natural path for me to work in textiles myself as it was something that had always felt ‘magical’ to me. Then followed the fine art route through various mentors, but always feeling the need for the work to be more three dimensional. The feeling I wanted to ‘build’ a work being the motivator. I was drawn originally to collage at a very young age. I was very fortunate to have a mother who taught me her same keen appreciation of nature in all its forms, however chaotic, and this has stayed with me throughout my life.ĭid you always aspire to be an artist, where did you study art and what made you choose the textile route? It was great way to grow up and art was all around me both in the home and in the seasons. Then, later on in the year, helping with apple picking and building haystacks and of course winter tobogganing We had a beautiful country garden and a variety of pets ranging from a pony and rescue donkey, chickens and pigs, through to cats and dogs and finally to a tortoise, so there was an abundance of nature. This meant bluebell woods and primroses in the spring and hand rearing lambs and baby calves when needed.
I was very lucky to live in the weald of Kent with its beautiful countryside. Thinking back to your early years and where you lived, were you influenced then by nature and art?
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