A r t i s t    S t a t e m e n t

I created my slash and show technique whilst a student at Glasgow School of Art and I have been refining and developing it since.

I combine texture, colour and design as the three elements that provide my alchemy. Different textiles take dye differently, cut and fray differently and absorb light differently. I like to combine these uncertain factors in my work as a foil to the discipline and rigidity of formal design. The clash of the two creates both tension and a sense of serenity.

A textile is expected to behave in a certain way, to be laid across a bed, to clothe and protect from the elements or to flutter in the sky proclaiming a Nations existence. My fabrics are there to be looked at in contrast to their surroundings and to challenge the viewer to rethink their perceptions of the function of fabric.

The very nature of my work in which leather natural silks, wool’s and cottons are hand dyed, sewn together in layers and hand cut defies the precision of modern design, not detracting from it but complimenting it.

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