"The World Awaits #TimesUp" Collage

I'm an Australian artist specialising in textile and art quilt based works. I regularly write for textile art and quilting magazines, run the 'Textile Arts' group on Facebook, am a participating member of the 'Art Quits Around the World blog group who produce a work to a theme every 2 months and my artworks are exhibited internationally. So far in 2014 my Piece 'Plight of the Bumblebee' was selected for the curated 'Living Colour' international exhibition and my quilt 'I+V+III+1' (Stillbirth) made it into the AQC premier exhibition and competition 'Ten'.

I believe that the best textile based works should not only be well designed, beautiful and possess a tactile quality that invites the viewer in, but should also be technically brilliant in their execution.

I quite literally fell into a fine art career after fracturing my back in a fall that left me having to lay down for much of the next few years and voided me from continuing as a full time corporate art director and graphic designer. I began doing palette knife applied oils on canvas as in my limited working time I was able to cover a fair amount of canvas. Since then as extended sitting has become more possible my main body of work has developed into often highly detailed textile and art quilt based work.