I explore the painterly and sculptural qualities of yarns and fibres within the relatively constraining context of my shaft looms. I am pushing these limitations to achieve vivid expression in this unfamiliar medium. My pieces evolve intuitively and I use yarns and fibres as lines of paint, each with its own colour as well as textural characteristics. I often leave the materials I use hanging off the sides as I think it is interesting for people to see what they are and how each one ‘behaves’ when unconstrained.

For me, the shaft looms I use provide a tensioned ‘canvas’ in the warp necessary to construct a cloth but I allow yarns to breathe with an often very loosely woven weft. Once released from the loom, the looseness softens or even dissolves traditional angularity of weaves and allows for natural movement, fluidity, expression which are all key to my work.