A smiling woman leaning against a red-framed glass window, holding yellow yarn and wearing a pink dress with a brown cardigan, with a room of crafting supplies in the background.

I am a hand weaver and textile designer working from my garden studio In Somerset UK.

Here, I draw on the inspiration from everything around me. The coloured cones of yarn that almost line the entire perimeter of my interior walls and the beauty of my garden surroundings extending out to the stunning views of the Somerset countryside. These sources of inspiration bring me into a feeling of presence.

My textile journey started as a child. The need to be making in a very creative way was always very present. From drawing, painting, making hand made paper out of tea leaves and onion skins, knitting and so much more. I was a young teenager when I had saved up enough money to buy an Ashford spinning wheel.

Sunset over a snowy farm field with distant trees and hills in the background.

A few years down the line, further academic studies led me onto study Contemporary Dance as well as Art at Degree Level.

My spiritual enquiries in my early twenties took me to the Far East and the Inca Civilisation of the Americas. Textiles from these lands generated a fascination for woven structure. My love for textiles started to grow bigger and so here it all began.

I decided to take up weaving as a profession completing a diploma in Handloom Weaving at Bradford and Ilkley college in 1996 whilst based in London and exhibiting shortly afterwards. At this time I specialised in rugs and many commissions were made for private homes around the Greater London area.

At the start of the new Millenium l moved to Frome and brought up a young family. My practice became part-time for a period along with a shift to weave more balanced cloth focusing primarily in scarves.

A harbor with several sailboats and fishing boats docked, with houses and buildings on a hillside in the background.

I am fascinated with the movement of light and colour; these elements deeply inform my work. I was born and raised in a fishing village in Cornwall. Cornish light has a different quality and became very special to me very early on. The reflection of the light on the water always mesmerised me and how it dances in full sunlight. This fascination remains and my woven textiles often portray graduated colour to give a feeling of movement and the way they interplay and dance within each woven piece. It’s a quiet homage to the ever-changing coastal light of my childhood.

A wool weaving loom with colorful spools of thread on shelves in the background, in a craft room filled with yarn and weaving supplies.

My love and identity as a maker is hugely important to me. As the world is becoming more complexed and complicating to navigate there is such beauty in being able to create something from nothing and to put it into the hands of another is very special and wonderful.

I love what I do and if you wish to share a piece of that joy through the purchase of a scarf or the commissioning of a rug or a wall hanging then please do make contact, the joy can be shared in the creative process and product.