Finding glimmers of gold in the rich soil and glimmers of hope in dark times Part of my historical practice, I am inspired to make work about a place and or social history. Using eco printing as a base, using leaves from the actual place that has inspired by, it’s good to go for a walk to see the landscape. Using oak gall ink, natural dyes and iron modifiers to create pattern and detail in the work, finishing with hand or free motion embroidery. I am often trying to tell a st

I'm so excited to be writing about this new project, it's a first for me, to have applied for my first residency and then actually got it! Coming directly from all those self initiated projects that I want to do, because I was interested and inspired in the hope they would lead to something exciting. The residency starts in May at Discover Bucks Museum, inspired by their new exhibition 'The Saxons' which is an immersive display of 3 prominent Saxon digs from Buckinghamshire.

So, thank you for keeping up, I'm back at Raveningham with this one for the 2nd Year! If you haven't read my first adventure there in 2024, its here for reference. So in 2025 the theme was 'Alchemy' and so much of the textile work I have been doing recently involves alchemy, I just had to create something again! Put in my proposal and was happy to have the same woodland setting, although I knew that I would not be able to fill this space this year, the processes take much l