Description: I am a specialist, professional hand embroiderer and designer, with an innate passion for creating individual work.
I am a specialist, professional hand embroiderer and designer, with an innate passion for creating individual work, for the study and repair of antique embroideries, and for passing on my skills through teaching.
Since a girl, I have wanted to create beautiful things and to make reality of the stories in my head. Embroidery is a magical medium which allows me to achieve the intensity of depth and diversity of texture I crave. Its mechanical operations are fascinatingly intricate and mesmerically soothing to perform.
I have spent over 20 years studying antique embroideries and perfecting traditional techniques. My joy is now to conjure with these, to create new and exciting combinations, keeping the medium fresh. I love to juxtapose the exacting hand skills of my training against the fluidity of softer sketched grounds created using pencil, brush and machine.