There is a small risk that when you walk into my studio, you may get lost in a pile of half-cut garments, loose wool fibres, over-spilling sewing baskets, clothes racks, pinned garments, draped manikins and stacked canvasses.

In fact, I have had several clients ask me how I can work in a studio this messy….and my response is….I can’t if its not.

This is the hot-pot of creativity that generates the hand-made stuff I love to make, and fortunately, people seem to love to own.

Having taught a hectic schedule of felt-making workshops from my studio for several years, I recently decided to limit the number of workshops on offer in order to reclaim the space as my own, so I can create the sort of things that I like to wear, or hang on my wall, or off my body.

Whilst I am passionate about teaching, it comes with certain restrictions, like having to teach workshops on how to make things that I feel other people would like to make. Whilst still a creative process, I found myself yearning to get back into designing and playing with natural fibres, where I am in my happiest state of being.

Cutting, wrapping, twisting, pinning, painting, felting, layering……I enjoy working across several different mediums, sometimes working them all in together, sometimes focusing in on just one.

Due to the unstructured way in which I work and the many natural, hand-crafted and recycled materials in which I use, each item created in the studio tends to be one-of-a-kind, if not, one of a small-run. Sometimes I‘ll get on a roll, and almost become addicted to a particular thing, and keep making it until I exhaust myself of it. Other creations, will be a labour of love, totally unique and individual.

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