This image shows the organic design angle of dropping straight edges to 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

Colorful organic shaped rug, like a horse, with abstract patterns, placed on a plain white background.

Rooted in care for materials, people, and place, my work isn’t about telling a story directly, but about creating something that feels connected, grounded, and quietly meaningful in a playful and contemporary way.

I like to explore the spaces in between, where land meets sea, from asleep to awake, from reality to deep fake.. Ha! I’m pulled to where traces of time remain, to how ancient rock markings have developed into today’s freedom of artistic expression, and how our tools and materials have changed! I’m interested in how to create a chance of space for connection, attention, to unnoticed relationships and thinking about how everything is linked and effects each other. Along the shoreline, for example, tides shape the land, seaweed feeds soil, sheep graze on nutrient rich grass, and wool becomes textile. The environment shapes the beauty of wood grain in a fallen tree to become a nutrient bank or to reappear in furniture or sculpture through the skilled hands of makers. Nurturing young hearts and minds shapes our future cultural value and well being.

My work is a slow craft like the natural cycles of change I mention; I use hand-tufted British wool and commission storm-fallen hardwood stools to make rugs, wall hangings, upholstered seating; all functional pieces, made to be used, sat on, walked on, touched. Each piece carries traces of where it comes from: time, nutrients and weather in the wool and the wood and the hands of the makers. I strongly value the quiet qualities of my work; acoustic enhancing, air purifying, fun, durable, eventually biodegradable, materially sound, home making creations.

See more on materials and our planet here

Person in black jacket and pants interacts with outdoor art installation resembling a colorful abstract cactus, with a matching stool, on a rocky beach.
Colorful abstract rock art painted on large stones and rocks outdoors.

‘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 and achieve a sense the way forward

A woman standing and leaning against a brick wall, looking at a large, abstract textile artwork on a white wall.

Photo by Shannon Tofts, Granton Station, Edinburgh, another beautiful building renovation developed by my landlord _wasps studio provision scotland

Collection of decorative objects including wooden sculptures, a large rock, and a twisted branch, arranged on a patterned blue and beige rug.

I love working in collaboration with wood wizard Phil Crennell on stool design and finish. I often 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.

An older man sitting in a wooden workshop, surrounded by wood pieces, tools, and machinery, with a relaxed expression.
A small round hardwood stool with three wooden legs and a cushioned top covered in a teal and blue patterned fabric.
A hard wood stool with a plush, celtic swirl-patterned fabric cushion top in shades of blue and green, with three wooden legs.
Close-up of a blue hand tufted textile stool top with a textured surface.

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.

Colorful plush hardwood stool with a swirling pattern of blue and green hues, supported by three wooden legs.
Close-up of a colorful, rolled-up, textured fabric stool with wooden legs.
A plush hard wood stool with a swirl of blue and green fabric on top, mounted on three hardwood legs.

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.

A hexagonal hand tufted textile with a blue and black carynx war horse design on the surface, featuring symmetrical mane and intricate details.
A hexagonal hand tufted rug anthropomorphic design with black tribal-style zoomorphic horse patterns, white skulls, red and black accents, and a central triangle design.
Decorative interior display featuring a large abstract red and black textile wall hanging, a twisted wire sculpture resembling a tree or plant, a decorative horse head figurine on a wood base, and a ceramic pot with an ornate black and yellow pattern on a wooden shelf.
A sea foam hand made wool pile textile of a shoreline with foam and waves crashing onto rocks and sand, under a blue sky.
Decorative floral-shaped rug with bright pink, green, yellow, blue, and orange colors hangs on a wooden wall in a modern living space. A white armchair and a small wooden side table with candles are in front of the rug.
A round purple rug with abstract, colorful lines and shapes resembling a spiral, with red, yellow, pink, and black accents.
Colorful butterfly-shaped rug with vibrant patterns on a white background.
A vertical pattern of abstract hand tufted shapes in green, gold, beige, and purple, resembling leaves, shells, and other organic forms.
A round rug featuring rivers, an egg like sun or moon, and stylized blue white fronted geese, set against a dark background with celtic geometric patterns.
Abstract hand tufted textile rug with swirling, colorful lines and shapes in shades of blue, orange, yellow, and white.
Interior with a wooden console table decorated with vases and candles, a hand tufted rug, abstract art hanging on a light-colored wall, and a tall narrow window with warm light.
Living room with a brown couch covered in a blanket, a decorative pillow, large colorful abstract wall hanging textile above, small painting on the side wall, potted plant on the left, and a side table with vases..
Colorful abstract floral-inspired rug with swirling patterns in shades of brown, orange, yellow, red, blue, and green.
A rug depicting a nature scene with trees and a body of water, with reflections of trees in the water.
Abstract hand crafted tufted wool pile textile with swirling lines in shades of orange, blue, green, yellow, and white.
Close-up of a textured, multicolored rug with swirling patterns in shades of orange, blue, yellow, and cream.
Colorful abstract rug with orange, yellow, blue, green, and black lines forming geometric and organic celtic faces shapes