I am an artist living and working in mid Devon.

My main practice is hand hooking textile panels using reclaimed fabrics. Subject matter comes from various places, I like to work on a few themes at once.

Wesley's White Rock forms part of my Sacred Dartmoor Collection.

Dartmoor is a barren landscape, beautiful and bleak, it holds a fascination for me in its long ancient history of humans living there. The landscape is peppered with standing stones, stone rows, hut circles and tors, villages are remote with unusual places for gatherings, preaching and worship. I visit these places, draw them, photograph them and research them. Back in the studio I design my textile panel to evoke a feeling of the place or structure, a sense of history, a sense of the people. I hook my design to create a textile panel using reclaimed fabrics, this process is very slow, methodical and meditative, my designs/drawings are quick and expressive, I like this juxtaposition.

Wesley's White Rock is a inspired by a rock high up on a hill side overlooking Sticklepath, a village on the northern edge of Dartmoor. It is reported that John Wesley, the methodist preacher preached from this rock overlooking Sticklepath in the 1700's. Since then this religious landmark has been painted white.

Hand Hooked Reclaimed Fabrics

92x92cm

 Unframed