I'm a textile and mixed media artist, embroidery tutor and kit designer, juggling my stitched work with making jewellery and being part of the artist shop Fig, on the Gloucester Road.

My embroidery kits are for beginners and improvers, combining simple stitches to create complex looking images of flowers, crockery and wreathes! I was encouraged to produce the kits after years of teaching beginners who complained about the lack of beautiful beginners kits.

My stitched and mixed media artwork is inspired by flowers, mushrooms and fungi, beetles, bugs, and creatures of the deep sea. The embroidered work is stitched on to ecodyed fabric created in my kitchen and my mixed media works included threads, wires, crochet, watch parts, beads and hand painted papers.