About Me
My favourite hand made felt necklace
I have lived in Stone from the age of 5 and went to local schools then Stafford College to gain a foundation in Art. I then studied a degree in textiles, on completion I set up a weaving business with the help of the Princes Youth Business Trust and wove rugs for the general public and some shops, Habitat being the most renowned.
After marriage and 2 children my career took the more conventional form of making soft furnishings for the home. As the children grew up I had the desire to be more creative and arty again, so I studied many textile courses at evening class over the next 11 years gaining City and Guilds qualifications in.....
- Soft furnishings,
- Interior Design,
- teaching (adults part time)
- paper making,silk paper,
- textile dyeing techniques, batique,printing,stenciling, discharge and painting.
- felt making, using mariono fleece to create, bags, jewellery, wall hangings and art work.
- free machine embroidery, couching yarns, applique and hand stitiching.
Teaching
I teach Adults, I day a week, soft furnishings for Stafford College at Brewood and Acton Trussell I enjoy teaching, it gets me out and about and it's satisfying inspiring others to make 'things'.
Studio
I make curtains and blinds from home in a studio that used to be a garage. In April 2011 I moved all my embroidery equipment and fabrics to 'Unit 12' Tixall Heath farm, Stafford.
Hobbies
I love my allotment, it keeps me sane.
exhibitions
'Shirehall Gallery' coffee shop /Gallery exhibition and Stafford Open art exhibition 7th May - 18th June 2011
'R.B.S.A' Birmingham Friends exhibition 3rd Feb - 12th Feb 2011
'Zig Zags' Newport June 2010