About

Much of my inspiration comes from the architecture and culture of places I have visited - Peru, Italy, Thailand, Mexico and Egypt among others - and more recently abstract themes such as secrecy and concealment, calligraphy and rain!

I like to work with plain cream fabric using my sewing machine and thread to stitch, quilt, manipulate, texture and embellish the fabric; thread is a major element in my work.

I often use geometric shapes and patterns - although I do occasionally break out! - and usually plan my quilts on graph paper after a few minimal line drawings. I make lots of samples as I work to find the best way to interpret a motif or pattern - and so creative thinking takes over and the finished quilt is often quite different to the initial design. I also hand-dye fabrics for more colourful quilts. I have recently started to include mixed media in my work and teaching.

I have won many awards over the past 12 years and my quilts have been selected for exhibitions in the UK, Europe, Canada and the USA.

MEMBERSHIP
Society of Designer Craftsmen
Quilters' Guild of the British Isles
International Quilt Association (USA)
Sutton Coldfield Creative Stitchers
Trinity Quilters
Tangent Textiles
Computer Textile Design Group

EXHIBITIONS
2011 Tangents Go Travelling',Chasewater Innovation Centre,Brownhills
2011 'Moon Rainbow', Weavers Gallery, Ledbury
2010 Houston Quilt Festival, 'Tactile Architecture'
2010 Houston Quilt Festival (Finalist)
2010 Festival of Quilts, NEC, Birmingham
2010 World Quilt & Textile, USA, (touring)
2010 'Tangents go Travelling', Tangent Textiles,
Corinium Museum, Cirencester
2009/10 'Romantic Proposals',Potteries Museum & Art
Gallery, Stoke-on-Trent
2009 Tangent Textiles, ZigZags, Newport
2009 Festival of Quilts, Birmingham
2009 World Quilt & Textile, USA (touring)
2009 Quilters' Guild Exhibition,(selected)
"Pearls,Pearls,Pearls",York Quilt Museum
2008 MidlandsTextileForum,"CommonThreads",Leicester
2008 Houston Quilt Festival, (Finalist)
2008 Festival of Quilts,NEC,Birmingham
2008 'Quilts in Time',(selected) Quilt Museum, York
2008 Tangent Textiles,Harding House Gallery,Lincoln
2008 Tangent Textiles,Friary Gallery,Lichfield
2007 World Quilt & Textile USA (touring)
2007 Houston Quilt Festival 'Tactile Architecture'
2007 Quilt National'07,Ohio,USA(touring to late2009)
2006 Waterloo County Quilt Festival,Ontario,Canada
2005 Tangent Textiles,Redditch
2005 Tangent Textiles,RealArt Gallery,Shrewsbury
2005 'Shaping Up!',Beverley Art Gallery,Yorkshire
2004 Festival of Quilts,NEC,Birmingham
2004 'Fabric of Nature',Wallsworth Hall,Twigworth
2004 Quiltfest, Llangollen, Wales
2003 Houston Quilt Festival(Finalist)(2 quilts)
2003 Festival of Quilts, NEC, Birmingham
2003 Craft Gallery,Royal Birmingham SocietyofArtists
2002 'Transforming Tradition',Quilters'Gld National
Exhibition,Halifax
2001 World Quilt & Textile,USA (touring)
2000 Government Offices West Midlands, Brussels
1999 Mall Galleries,London, Soc.of Designer Craftsmen