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

TIME to reflect on some of my experimental swatches (work in progress…) & commissioned garments – each one has a tale to tell! But I also feel like starting something completely different – only TIME will tell…

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Having fun, playing with different ways of ‘tying’ one of the latest designs from my collection of digitally-printed silk scarves…

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Time to start thinking about new designs to add to my range of digitally-printed silk fabrics. I just love this opportunity to work with some of my drawings, paintings etc. The central ‘meandering line’ in this repeat image, seemed to appear by accident, rather than design…

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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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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…

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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…

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Just a detail of a design from my first collection of digitally printed fabrics – on fabulous silk ‘crepe-de-chine’, of course! This design combines one of my photograph of leaves with an abstract geometric pattern, inspired by the pattern of the branches of the same tree…

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One of my first experiment with images for ‘digital printing’ onto fabric – using one of my original drawings of a tawny owl (in coloured pencil), trying to create a sense of movement…. What fun!