After a number of years working in the fields of Educational Psychology and Special Education, a series of events  including a life changing illness, conspired to send me back to my first love: designing and creating. After feeling worthless and unwanted when my illness stopped me pursing my first career, I found myself again in the art that I created from textiles which had also been discarded and deemed worthless.

I now have the wonderful privilege of spending my days surrounded by an ever growing collection of vintage items, yarn and textiles in my studio near to Maastricht. Here I can be found making one of a kind textile collage pieces which incorporate vintage fabric, lace and paper together with book pages, modern fabrics and embroidery.  Woven through my pieces are aspects of hope and love and above all the desire to bring life and worth into what was once regarded as worthless; bringing beauty in place of ashes and hopefully instilling those same feelings into the people who view my art.