After studying embroidery at City and Guilds level, I returned to full-time education as a mature student, completing a two year General Art and Design course at York College of Further and Higher Education before acquiring a Textile Art Degree at Norwich School of Art and Design. I then went on to study for a City and Guilds Teachers Certificate at the City College Norwich.

While continuing to develop my own textile work for sale, commission and exhibition, I have been involved with a variety of community projects, textile workshops and courses.

I currently work part-time for Rural Arts North Yorkshire as a workshop tutor within community groups, schools and other organizations and I am also a supply tutor for Henshaws Society for the Blind at their Arts and Craft Centre in Knaresborough.

My own textile work ranges from large hangings and smaller framed pieces, to cushions, purses, jewellery and greetings cards, which sell in galleries around the country. I incorporate feltmaking, hand and machine stitching, fabrics and sometimes handmade papers and paper threads. I use a variety of techniques depending on the piece being worked on at the time.

The inspiration for my work comes from studying ancient architecture. Tribal dwellings, mud huts, wooden structures and also aspects and shapes which create the psychology of the house. Universal symbols such as circles, squares and triangles, which relate to religious notions also play a large part within the decoration of my pieces, together with the spiral, dot and wavy line drawings shared by all early cultures.

On graduating from the Norwich School of Art and Design I was elected licentiate of The Society of Designer Craftsmen. I am a member of The International Feltmakers Association and Wire (Women in Rural Enterprise).