Before I discovered that I´m addicted to fabric, I´ve been a writer and a journalist - which seems the perfect preparation for creating textile and mixed media art. Being used to weaving words and to embroider them over and over, the step from one medium into the other came quite naturally.
So, it´s no wonder there´s a lot of writing in my work - letters, words, fragments of poetry - hand stitched, machine written, printed, taken from old books...