ABOUT THE ARTIST

I’m a mixed media artist living in Cornwall.

My artwork encompasses a love of textiles, photography and paintings.  I particularly love mixed media – combining a variety of techniques and materials to produce timeless, but nostalgic, pieces of artwork for the home, studio and office

I love to heat melt bond fold and manipulate fabrics to create interesting textures and then add free motion machine embroidery, hand stitching, beads, buttons and found objects to my textile art pieces.  I’m interested in natural and eco dyeing and I dye, print and paint a lot of my own fabrics.  I also enjoy making my own textured beads.

I offer my beads, fabrics and mixed media textile art packs for sale via my ETSY SHOP.  You can use these collections of materials to create unique pieces of  textile art, jewellery and in your  mixed media paintings and art projects.  Every pack is different, making them ideal for adding to and building up your collection of interesting art supplies.

I am inspired by my home town of St. Ives, the white washed cottages with their lichen covered rooftops, cobbled streets, fishing boats, rust and peeling paint textures, seascapes, the ocean, the beach, pebbles, seaweed, shells, sea glass and also nature, the hedgerow, berries, leaves and wild flowers

I enjoy textured photography and walk with my camera most days.  Along the way I seek out “found” objects which find their way into my work … such as shells, sea glass, feathers, flotsam and jetsam, bits of sea washed fabric and plastic, leaves and pressed flowers and use berries and petals for natural eco dyeing

I’m a member of St. Ives Arts Club.  My current and ongoing projects include my experiments with surface design, mixed media and collage, as well as cyanotypes, dyeing with indigo, eco and natural dyeing of fabrics, experiments with wax and investigations into making my own paints with earth pigments

I have a blog where I record my art progression, experiments and new work for sale. I currently offer my work and art materials through my ETSY SHOP ONLY at this time. There you will find, from time to time, a variety of my textile art pieces, jewellery, beads, fabrics, yarns and inspiration packs.  Thank you very much for your interest.