During a career spent largely in academic teaching and research I maintained a passion for textiles, ceramics and fine art. The finish of that career gave me opportunity to return to the pathway within art and design that I had begun at school abandoned for the sciences on first entering university. I have undertaken the BA course in Textile Design at Central Saint Martins School of Art and Design, graduating in 2010, and am currently pursuing an MA course in Textiles at the Royal College of Art.
My sources of inspiration for design are diverse but centred on memory. I have become increasingly fascinated by the power of memory over our lives, by the memories, myths and narratives that surround us in the fabric of the rural and urban landscapes. Personal and cultural memories and narrative fragments are woven into the textiles that we use in our clothing and that we surround ourselves with in our homes, in pieces from the past as well as the present. Even closer to ourselves, the genetic material that helps to determine our present and future contains ancient fragments and stories, often only half understood.
