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.
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‘Beyond Technique - Masterclass & Mentorship’ - is my latest online workshop with Fibre Arts Take Two. It’s a programme to help participants develop their creative practice and grasp of composition. Registration is open until the end of December and the programme goes live on the 1st January 2025. Along with 11+ hours of video, it’s supported by plenty of illustrated written material, a private Facebook page where you can engage with myself and others, and four live Q&A’s.
CURRENT WORK - ‘Unearthed’
“A sense of the primitive, of having been unearthed, time-worn artefacts, rawness of material, historic reference.”