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

Recently I have been experimenting with collage, gelli prints and stencilling in acrylics and from these have produced new abstract work, showing for the first time at this year's trail.

I'm also a hand embroidery teacher and kit creator. The kits have been designed and made for beginners and improvers, combining simple stitches to create complex looking images of flowers, crockery and bouquets. I was encouraged to produce the kits after years of teaching beginners who complained about the lack of beautiful beginners kits.