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My textile craft practice revolves round reflection and creative experimentation.

Where I choose to work, the weather's potency is primal.  These sources of inspiration and my need to visualize them constantly impacts on my creative practice.  The methods I use are based on traditional textile techniques such as painting, printing, stitch and collage on fabric and combining these with digital technology, is allowing me to develop ideas more quickly and in greater depth than before.

Reflection is integral to my practice, essential for developing a 'new voice' for my current work.  The outcome of this reflection is an experimental body of work, which investigates the impact on my creative process over the past twenty years, of a two-mile daily walk along the Isle of Arran's shoreline.

Through this daily absorption of the its transitions, moods and physicality, my work has evolved from 2D surface to 3D form where a new dimension is affecting my creative thought.

By revisiting old techniques, I am exploring erosion where Time reveals the Human impact on concealed natural forms. The seaweed thrown up on the tide line after winter storms often goes unobserved. It is the complexity and resilience of this shoreline, which I am trying to capture.

By using silk's natural structure of strength and fragility I am highlighting fundamental qualities of the shoreline. Its subtle vulnerability acts as a reminder of an essential natural balance.

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Studio Location:  Kirkmichael

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