I love wool, color and texture.  Any of them in the right combination can take my breath away!

My medium is wool transformed through traditional wet feltmaking and natural plant dyeing, creating dense wool fabric art pieces  that embody the mineral, plant and animal kingdoms. Both are ancient crafts, ideal for exploring a modern relationship between artist and nature. Natural plant dyeing and the laying out of the wool fibres are long, quiet processes, taking many hours, or days, to complete. Then the meditative is balanced and completed by the intense physical agitation needed to entangle the wool fibres in felting and shrink the work through fulling.

Local, natural, wildcrafted, organic, low impact, sustainable, fair trade.  I believe in the provenance of craft; in knowing the story and life cycle of the materials I work with, and passing this on to my students and customers.   My materials are most often local and wild, and sometimes exotic and cultivated.   I believe in supporting traditional craft work through fair trade craft producers, and have worked with craft producers in India and Nepal to produce lines of felt work that are still being made and sold to shops in North America today.

I have been self employed as a craftsperson for 22 years, and have been feltmaking and plant dyeing since 1996.  Although this lifestyle has its challenges, these are far outweighed by the benefits.  I can’t imagine doing anything else.
I create my own line of feltwork for sale at craft shows and gallery shops that includes home furnishings, toys and accessories; all in light, playful, crisp colourways; pleasing our senses of sight and touch.

I am Senior Contributing Editor to Living Crafts magazine- a beautiful quarterly  publication, based in California, that focuses on craft created with natural materials.
My creative impulses are fueled by observing the natural world. We have been fortunate to travel and live in some of the most beautiful places, always surrounded by trees, wildflowers, water. Usually in quiet, rural settings that encourage a slower pace with more time to absorb and just be. We homeschool our three boys, who are intensely creative themselves, making things I could never even imagine. There is a lot of competition in our home for work surfaces, materials and tools…and lots of time spent making….together.