Having studied BA (Hons) in Multi-disciplinary Design, I then worked in interior design and photography.

My recent work began with inspiring photographs of our whippets and a love of fabric, which led me to create freehand machine embroidered and appliquéd pictures. In my studio on the edge of Dartmoor, I learnt to draw with my sewing machine, working from sketches and photographs of the creatures I meet, combining the elegance of my images with the texture and warmth of fabric and the stitched line. Each original piece is then mounted and framed.

A large part of my work is commissioned, both at home and internationally, which provides me with a huge diversity, and I enjoy immensely the challenges which this presents. I have sewn commissions ranging from a trio of oriental cats living in Berlin, to ‘The Hero’, a portrait of a large Bassett Hound who caught a handbag thief at Badminton Horse Trials!

Often inspired by a piece of vintage fabric or a photograph, my imagination leads me to sew the quirky, beautiful, magical, and sometimes humorous or touching.