Sally!

These were past onto me by Sarah, or Sally as she was known. She has since past on but was 102 when she died and somehow this photo says a lot about her. She was in service in the 1920's and had a love of all things domestic...monday was wash day, friday they had fish, sunday she baked bread buns in the morning then cooked the roast. She kept newspaper cuttings of the latest this or that and then past them onto my sister or me. I always felt like one of the little spoons, dwarfed in her presence but I think it was through her I developed my thrift and kept things with a view to re-use.

My drawing of Sally and her 'just get on with it' attitude wallpapering. The photograph is of her leaving the hospital after breaking her spine and being prostrate for a year! 

Through a love of re-inventing things and inspired by Slow Design philosophy, my work explores material sustainability and incorporates the re-use of things. Using a contemporary take on ancient Japanese techniques (boro, sashiko and sakiori) the colour, texture and narrative of my current pieces are inspired by the three aspects of sustainability:

Time

Logans Rock, Cornwall - one of my favorite places.

In our fast world, ideas of reflection and taking time become lost. Our cultural desire for immediacy disconnects us from the natural world and so too it’s lessons of regenerative design.