Portfolio

I wanted to share a small selection of my favourite tapestry works with you. You can see my natural progression as I increase complexity in my art and have started to work with multiple yarns, like wool and silks, on one piece.

My work is shown newest to oldest.

'Safe Harbour' - I loved creating this piece for Alnmouth Arts Festival in June 2026. I used fine wool yarns but added silk in the water reflections for that shimmer.

'Yin and Yang' - my most complex piece to date. I used wool and silks to really highlight certain areas. I worked on single warp strands in several areas to really get that detail.

This is one of four in my Limited Edition 'Unmapped' series. I worked purely freestyle on them, simply making up each colour choice and row as I went. It's so refreshing to do that sometimes.

This was a new weft challenge for me. I had a limited amount of hand dyed Weavers Bazaar silks. I looked at the colours and came up with this design. As I worked towards the top I was running out of blue and so created this more dramatic sky. A challenge can have a wonderful result.

My first attempt at a portrait (I used to be a portrait artist so I had to try with yarn). I love how I started with greys on the neck and as I moved up the yarn I learned to mix the shadow work differently. My favourite part? The eyes!! I can't wait to do more.

I had been showing students how to work 'side on' with tapestry when the design makes it necessary. I wanted to have some fun myself and this little cute artwork was created.

I adore sunset scenes and houses so created this happy little image with pure wool.

This was when I realised how much I loved reflective work. I also added in the complexity of creating it as a four selvedge piece of work (no warp threads left to sew in) which means careful planning of the design.