I often take inspiration for my quilts from both the natural and built environments that surround me but some quilts are inspired by political events, historical moments or more conceptual ideas. Examples of all of these are in the galleries below.

In the landscape

In the landscape : hills, path ways, woodlands, fields, skies, walls and buildings.

Woollen Wall (2025)

Holme Valley Winter (2024)

Holme Valley Spring (2024)

Holme Valley Autumn (2023)

Joshua Tree (1) ( 2023)

Joshua Tree (2) ( 2023)

In the weeds (1) (2022)

In the Weeds (2) (2022)

Life in the Cracks (2022)

Over and Under (2022)

Bluebell Wood (2022)

A Walk in the Woods (1 (2022)

A Walk in the Woods 2 (2022)

Roots ( detail) (2022)

Exploring curves

I have recently started a new series, initiated by paper collages. The quilts are experiments with colour & scale

Free Fall (2023)

What if ....? (2023)

Tumbleweed (2023)

Beating the blues (2023)

Gallery of other recent work

Wide Bluer Yonder 100 cms w x 92cms H

A Sailor's shirt 109cms W x 94 cms H

The Living Sea (2024)

Leaving ( 2023)

Never Again ? (2023)

Shattered (2023)

Joyful (2022)

Moonlit Garden (2022)

Red Alert (2023)

A Visit to Margate (2022)

Mariupol- lest we forget (2022)

Red Matrix (2021)

Making Connections (2021)

Exuberance (2021)

© Copyright. All rights reserved.