My practice straddles three disciplines: textiles, photography and jewellery. Linking all these strands are interests in texture and surfaces and representations of science and technology.

Some textile work begins as a textural knitting project which imparts shape and structure before the piece is fulled and felted. These structured objects are often bowls, bottles or bags and visualisations of mathematical structures such as Mobieus strips. Smaller felted knits are made up as jewellery such as lapel or hat pins. I also knit cobweb-like scarves from textured yarns.

Photographically printed textiles also form part of my practice. I use cyanotype contact printing to produce unique silk scarf photograms of lace, feathers, leaves and other natural objects. The same technique is used to create cotton covered jewellery in limited editions.

Photographs digitally printed onto plastic surfaces are also used to create earrings and brooches in small editions. I have begun applying digital photographs directly to wood and to fabric but this is currently in the developmental stage.

Wirework jewellery, sometimes incorporating found objects and novel materials, is the final strand of work. I embellish recycled printed circuit boards from scrap electronics with beaded wirework to create a range of glamorous “Cyberjewels”.