Landscape is where I place myself – be that in a remote wilderness, a wildflower meadow, a beach or a woodland. A piece of cloth (usually linen or hemp) is always my starting point. Earth pigments provide the colour and connect me to the soil. Soya milk binds pigment to cloth and enables me to communicate a sense of a place. Thread is the final addition, adding quiet details, accents and a surface texture that fingertips can feel.
These are my quiet materials, used to evoke solitude, stillness and silence.
‘Out of this Earth’ workshop
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Designed and developed in partnership with course-industry leader, Fibre Arts Take Two, ‘Out of This Earth’ provides online, lifetime access to how I use earth pigments, soya milk and cloth.
Professionally filmed at Potters Farm, my studio in the UK, the workshop provides over 11 hours of video guidance and a tonne of written support material.
Fibre Arts Take Two also support their student base by offering you the option to join a private ‘Out of This Earth’ community on Facebook, where you can post images, ask me questions and be in community with other people who are exploring this process.
Registration is open until late evening, Friday 3rd March 2023. To find out more and enrol, visit
CURRENT WORK - ‘Unearthed’
“A sense of the primitive, of having been unearthed, time-worn artefacts, rawness of material, historic reference.”
