I Graduated in 1989 with a BA(Hons) in Constructed Textiles from Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art, Dundee. I worked teaching in Fife, Lanarkshire and Argyll and Bute before settling in Glasgow. Having swapped the countryside for the city, my appreciation of rural life and natures landscape have become a growing focus in my work. In 2024 I left teaching to focus full-time on my own artwork. In my landscapes, it is the space and solitude which I aim to evoke; an emptiness where only the wind, grasses and streams provide the soundtrack, void of the presence of man, where the viewer can contemplate their place and position in the context of the natural world. I am interested in the juxtaposition of the wildness of the landscape and the will of man to impose his footprint through farming and through even the need to measure and classify through ordinance survey maps – all of which provide me with marks, lines, and shapes as inspirations. Through mark making in paints and drawing from my background in tapestry and papermaking to explore surface textures. Adding ornamentation and a sense of the precious I incorporate beading and metallics to pieces as I celebrate and evoke the delicate beauty of nature and its balance. Threads and needles are used as drawing tools and hark back to my days of warp and weft at the tapestry loom which serve as a metaphor for the emotional ties I have with the landscape.