Handmade textiles...

I keep returning to handmade textile work. It seems to be a basic part of me.

Many of the creations here were experiments and learning again to do hand work after years of working with computers.

I've always done a little textile jewellery and wearable art, but at university I was more into coiling than tapestry and generally I loved raffia way more than yarn, even working later on for a short time making raffia hats for a fashionable milliner.

I seem to be always working in that point between each category of art or craft, and never quite fitting in any of them.

I was looking for something to do that didn't cause neck pain, and tapestry leapt out at me. Like painting it could be done in an upright position.

I never imagined doing tapestry again, after my tiny, frustrated effort as a first year textiles student. It may be that doing graphic design has made me more patient! Or perhaps it is just age...

I'm not saying I'm a master craftsperson! I'm just making and letting the medium take me where it will. I work within the confines of each material and my social anxiey, which definitely inhibits my networking ability! (I try to accept myself as I am - there's room for art in any life and we don't all have to be the same).

Digitally printed tea towels and fabrics....

I've experimented with trying to make money with digitally printed tea towels and fabric (on Spoonflower). The exchange rates with the US made it difficult to make money from the tea towels, although they sold well. The prints themselves aren't robust enough for this use. The tea towels were more work than they were worth, but fun.