This jaunty angle shows how dropping straight edges can create animated, visually playful, artful home decor, to bring warmth, movement and acoustic value to living space, walls or floors. Photography by GE Photography in Dumfries
Rooted in care for materials, people, and place, my work is not about telling stories directly. Instead, I create pieces that feel connected, grounded, quietly meaningful, and playful in a contemporary way.
I am drawn to the spaces in between: where land meets sea, where thinking becomes mindfulness, where sleep becomes awakening, where reality edges towards deep fake... and back again. I am fascinated by traces of time, how ancient rock markings evolved into today's freedom of artistic expression, and how our tools and materials continue to change.
Much of my work explores connection: the often unnoticed relationships between people, materials, landscapes, and culture. Along a shoreline, for example, tides shape the land, seaweed enriches soil, designer sheep graze nutrient-rich grass, wool becomes textile. Fallen trees become habitats, nutrient banks, or, through the skilled hands of makers, furniture and sculpture. The way we nurture young hearts and minds shapes our future wellbeing, values, and cultural life.
My practice follows the same slow rhythms as the natural cycles that inspire it. Working with hand-tufted British wool and locally sourced storm fallen hardwoods, I create rugs, wall hangings, upholstered seating, and sculptural functional objects designed to be lived with; sat on, walked on, rolled about on, touched, and used.
Each piece carries something of its origin: the weather held in the wood, the landscape reflected in the wool, and the time and skill invested by human hands. I value the quieter qualities of these materials and objects: their ability to soften sound, improve comfort, bring warmth, invite touch, endure daily life, and eventually return to the earth.
In a world that often moves quickly, my work offers a small invitation to notice connections, appreciate materials, and experience the value of things made with care.
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‘We May Become’ is one of the present lines of my work. Visits to Newgrange in Ireland, Groam House in The Black Isle, Kilmartin Glen in Argyll and the draw of the liminal space of the intertidal zone has abstracted elements appear in the works creating a nod to the past in a contemporary way.
Playing with photography of the works at source is a fun way for me to reflect, ground, and achieve a sense the way forward
Photo by Shannon Tofts in Granton Station, Edinburgh
I love working in collaboration with wood wizard Phil Crennell on stool design and finish. I cover stools to sit with the larger textiles I make and often use the stool tops to work out the colours and textural finish possible for larger textiles.
Every stool made for me is slightly different in height, width, shape, texture, finish, colour of the legs and I make a different top to suit each one. When I photograph them they look different from each angle.
I can, and do, ask for the stools to be made to specifics for commission requests, as can you, and for which I design a top to a persons commission request.
My own rug creations show my influences as already mentioned above; drawn from the nature around me, living near the sea, extracted elements from places, exhibitions and cultural influences from the deep past to new folklore.
