Artist Statement

I am a contemporary textile artist working with woven tapestry to explore landscape, time, and embodied movement. My practice is rooted in direct engagement with place, particularly the chalk woodlands and hanger slopes of West Sussex, where steep, shaded terrain creates slow-moving atmospheres shaped by air, moisture, and seasonal change.

My work develops through sustained, meditative processes at the loom. Walking, sitting, and climbing within the landscape inform both structure and rhythm: ascent and return, repetition and interruption. The woven surface becomes a slope or path revisited, with each thread carrying traces of duration, attention, and place.

Materials are kept deliberately simple — wool and cotton — allowing colour, tension, and structure to register subtle shifts over time. Each tapestry begins as a continuation of the last, holding memory within the weave: an unrecorded yarn, a diagonal cut, an inherited warp that becomes the silent ground of the work.

Recent work, including Verdure Hanger (2026), are been presented with Cavaliero Finn at Collect, held at Somerset House, London.

image credit Anne Purkiss