I am a landscape artist whose work currently explores the ideas of wildness and wilderness, our experiences of places that create that sense within us, and how the space we find in those places may be some sort of antidote to the urgency and noise of most people’s daily lives.
In my work I use a combination of wet and needle felting, predominantly using wool, along with hand stitching. My work always starts with wet felting. After that, some pieces have needle felting, some have hand stitching, some have both, and a few only use wet felting. I have worked with textiles for years, and became drawn to felting in part because of the centuries of connection between wool and the local landscape, as well as its textural quality. The process of turning a pile of wool into something beautiful also feels slightly magical!
I live in North Yorkshire, and am inspired by the Yorkshire Dales, North York Moors and Yorkshire Wolds, as well as travels further afield in the UK to Northumberland, Cumbria and Scotland.