Textile Design

I am a woven textile designer by training and started my career as a designer/maker whilst artist in residence at Ruthin Craft Centre in the 1990’s. Here I developed art textiles and the residency culminated in a solo exhibition A Contemporary Voice, which toured the UK for three years.

Following an MA at the RCA where I looked at the more commercial side of weave design, I took a different direction and worked in the textile industry, working first with jacquard woven fashion textiles and later in interior textile design and production on wovens, prints, embroideries and appliqué. I have experience with UK, European and international manufacturers (including Indian and Chinese).

Although my career has taken different paths in more recent years, I still have my roots in this ancient craft and have always delved back into my knowledge and understanding of this most technical forms of creative expression. Most recently in 2017 I was honoured to be asked by the Nuno Corporation, Japan, to design a range of scarves. This came about after working with Nuno and its founder and CEO Reiko Sudo on the Japan Season at Ruthin Craft Centre (staged in 2012) when the gallery held an amazing exhibition of their textiles. Five designs were lunched and have sold in Japan, New York - at the MET - and in the UK.

These images give a flavour of my Nuno scarf designs, art textiles and commercial design.