Fibres & Beyond

I was raised in a home where Beauty was highly valued. Expressing oneself creatively was a part of the rhythm of our everyday life. My father was a woodworker and my mother a weaver. They filled our home with objects that were both functional and beautiful. They encouraged me from an early age to see beauty and create with my hands. 

By age ten, I was sewing my own clothes. While in high school, I was given a spinning wheel and a sheep’s fleece. I learned to card, spin and weave. One particularly cold winter while in university, I acquired 5 discarded wool coats, deconstructed them and made a quilt for my bed. Many quilts later, I ventured from practicality into art, taking the quilt off the bed and putting it on the wall.

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Using textiles and fibres, I’ve created wall hangings, book covers, wearable art, and thread paintings. After exploring wet felting and making many three-dimensional vessels, I've recently come full circle to my earlier interest in weaving. My current passion is creating fabric on a beautiful Saori loom and embracing its philosophy that says there are no rules and therefore there are no mistakes. Everything has its own dignity.

As a founding member of Fibres & Beyond, I deeply value the sense of community and encouragement we experience together. In addition to fibre art, I write prose poetry, play the harp, grow a garden and use photography to capture moments of numinous beauty.