I have always loved creating but I didn't have any interest in fabric, needles or thread until I discovered that you could make beautiful and unique things for yourself and others on a budget. Years later and with some resistance I bowed to peer pressure and made my first quilt. I really couldn't see the sense in cutting up a perfectly good fabric in order to stitch it all back together again! Seeing a pattern emerge from a pile of scraps made me want more so I made a heap of 'practise' quilts treating patterns more as suggestions than hard and fast rules and learnt a lot through trial, error and experimentation. 

In 2010 I went back to 'school' at Marden Senior College to do a Certificate in Visual Arts- Textiles and spent the next 3 years with a legitimate excuse to indulge in textile experimentation and enjoying the company of likeminded colleagues. As my final year focus I researched natural dyeing and in particular ecoprinting of leaves on fabric. The body of work that came out of this time (Leaf Fall) was the start of playing around with the layering of images in my work. I now use my ecodyed fabric to make a range of covered journals and other items.

My current work uses a lot of free motion thread sketching and/or painting in some form (fabric paint or fabric used as paint). I love layering images that have a relationship to each other eg a detailed line drawing of a post overlaying a painted and stitched landscape background. I have also started exploring using fabric to 'paint' a landscape and using thread sketching to add detail.

I live in the beautiful Adelaide hills region of South Australia and when I'm not creating textile art I work part-time as an Occupational Therapist, training workers in safe manual handling techniques (Manutention) or volunteering at our church Op shop (great for finding supplies - not so good for keeping the house uncluttered!). I love getting out in the garden, growing my own produce and watching the antics of my chooks (who feature in some of my work).