About Me. 
I am a tapestry weaver in training.
I am an historian, a midwife, a writer, a researcher
I am a partner, a mother, a grandmother, a daughter, a friend.
I love solitude and being with others. 
I love colour and crave the starkness of mono-chrome. 
I love my campervan and wish I could live in it, travelling, permanently. 
I miss the geographical stability I’ve never had.
I love stories.
I am a very new weaver.

I never considered myself to be an ‘artistic’ person because, although I have always loved making and doing, I have never had any formal training.  My life took me down an academic route of history degree, Masters and PhD.  After teaching roles in universities, I trained to be a midwife.  I worked clinically for several years before returning to lecture roles – this time teaching midwifery.  I continued to write and research- around midwifery practice, but primarily around social, women’s and medical history.
As a teenager I was taught to knit and sew and for a while made most of my own clothes.  I always loved drawing but always felt ‘not good enough’.  As a working adult most of my creative outlets vanished (apart from bouts of knitting for babies or making curtains).  Occupational burnout and menopause led me back to working with my hands.  This began as knitting, but I taught myself to crochet and used drawings to develop lino-cuts.  I realised how vital making and doing was for my sense of self.  This was to do with learning and skill acquisition, with making mistakes, and with process as well as product.  I began to understand how important it was to me as a person to work with materials and with my hands.
Since taking voluntary severance in 2024, my craft/artistic journey has flourished.  At the moment I tend to describe what I do as ‘playing’ because that is what I feel that I am doing in the purest sense – I play with materials and methods (drawing, painting, natural dyeing, cyanotype, embroidery, knitting…and weaving) and enjoy experimentation and the open-endedness of the process.
In Jan 2025 I started a tapestry weaving course at East Sussex College.  Although I had attempted a bit of weaving on cardboard I was intrigued by the concept of tapestry weaving about which I knew nothing.  I had seen the huge tapestries in places such as Hardwick Hall but had never considered the process. 
I fell in love with weaving from the first warp.
I am currently studying for a Foundation Diploma in Tapestry Weaving at West Dean College in Sussex and completing a short course in psychogeography at the Open College of the Arts.
I live in a seaside town in East Sussex.  I draw my inspiration primarily from landscape – both the chalk Downs of my local area and further afield, primarily Lancashire.This website is not showcasing the work of an expert – I will always be learning. 
But the journey is the whole point.