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Unique garments and accessories, innovative textile designs, prints and mixed-media pieces... Individual commissions welcomed.

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Two of my ‘Countryside Celebration’ fairisle designs – firstly knitted, then the images are printed onto canvas fabric and stretched over a wooden frame – thus creating a more practical form of wall hanging…

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My latest macrame pieces in action – I have woven threads into a knitted ‘yoke’ before knotting them – so that each piece will sit nicely around the shoulders…

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A commissioned version of my ‘Evolution’ jacket, featuring insets of fringed ribbon – alongside other experimental fabrics of the moment, in my studio…

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Having fun with my latest collection of re-claimed ‘threads’ and materials – planning how best to use them so that they keep as much of their original ‘character’ as possible…

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Originally I was a weaver, and have recently re-visited some of my ‘jacquard’ fabric designs. This one (inspired by butterfly wings) I am now using as the background for a new digital-print design, adding some of my related drawings and paintings as motifs…

Just a corner of my display at this year’s HAOS ‘Open Studios’ exhibition. An excellent opportunity to display my latest garments and share some ‘work in progress’… Next Exhibition – October 21st-22nd. See ‘Events’ page for details.

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I call this my ‘sea-shawl’ – which started life as a crochet ‘doodle’… The spiral swirls (ammonites?) are areas I have embossed with strips of re-cycled, space-dyed fabric…

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Just playing with ‘patches’ of off-cut silk fabric (of my ‘Twin Hydrangeas’ digital print design). The idea is to let these richly textured squares evolve into a decorative shawl or neck-piece, one square at a time…

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Inspired by a walk over the ‘Golden Gate Bridge’ on my recent trip to San Francisco, I’ve started working on new ideas for creating very lacy/ open-work fabrics that also have great ‘stability’…

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I’m starting to look at some new designs for my 2nd collection of digitally-printed scarves and fabrics. I love to mix images of my 3-D textile work with photographs and drawings…