Artist Statement
Clothes are a necessity, for modesty and warmth so they are always with us, I just want to have fun with them as decoration too. I have been a fibre artist for forty-one years. My canvas is the human body, and my tools have been my hands and domestic knitting machines making knit garments and felted wearable art, one at a time, primarily for women but also men, children, commercials and the theatre. As a fibre artist, I work with natural fibres like wool cotton and silk. The unknown of my own dyeing is exhilarating, then I love the freedom from the structure I have with felting, creating a fabric, using colours freely, experimenting with what will work technically to create the look I want, what won’t and how to make the ‘won’ts, into ‘wills’. With hard work I’ve had my knits commented on as they travelled the world; Canada, the US, New Zealand, Italy, the Cannes Film Festival. I am always learning anew.
