I am a fiber textile artist with a lifelong love with textiles and texture. I am fascinated by the “Art Fabric” artists from the 1960’s and 70’s for their incredible innovation in materials and forms, they moved the craft into an art form on its own.
In my artistic practice I use materials that I manipulate in a way that diverts them from their original purpose. Newspapers that I spin into yarn and weave or wrap it, and roving flax fibers that I transform using a papermaking technique to make sculptural forms.
Disrupting the notion of fiber and textile and blurring the lines between textile and sculpture.
By converting those materials, the meaning of the objects I transform is both amplified and changed, a shift challenges the viewer’s perceptions and feelings.
In times of faster technology, I enjoy the slow and deliberate pace of using hands-on traditional tools and methods.