About Me

I am a textile artist working with a variety of media including recycled materials - for example news paper, aluminum cans and garden wire ! My inspiration comes from many sources - vegetables, iron work, Gormanghast, a recent a trip to Egypt, the Phantom of the Opera and Rust to name a few!!  If you belong to a group and would a workshop on how to make any of these please feel free to get in touch by email.

My current work seems to be leading me towards costume - Keep coming back for more information!!

My work has been featured books, magazines and Workshop on the Web.

Education

1989 - I taught myself Bobbin Lace making.

1990 - The Open College of Arts course - Textiles I. 

1992 - City and Guilds Creative Studies 7900 (038) Embroidery Part 1 by Correspondence with Sian Martin  - Seven years later I completed the course. 

2000 - City and Guilds Creative Skills Certificate - Textile Surface Decoration with Valerie Campbell-Harding. 

2001 - City and Guilds Creative Studies 7900 (038) Embroidery Part II with Sian Martin.  

2003 - City and Guilds Machine Embroidery course 7822 with Valerie Campbell-Harding

2001 - City and Guilds Creative Studies 7900 (038) Embroidery Part II with Sian Martin.  

2003 - City and Guilds Machine Embroidery course 7822 with Valerie Campbell-Harding

2004 -  City and Guilds Machine Embroidery course 7922 with Valerie Campbell-Harding 

2005 - HNC Stitched Textiles with by distance learning.

2007 - City and Guilds Historical Heirlooms 7822-83 with Janet Crowther.

I also belong to the Great Western Embroiderers (GWE) - a new group in Wiltshire - the website will be available soon, but for more information visit here.

I would like to express my deep sadness about the death of Val Campbell-Harding on 5th October 2006. She was the most inspirational tutor, I will really miss her encouragement and enthusiasm.