About My Practice

I am a textile, print, and glass artist, who trained at the Glasgow School of Art. Following my education in Scotland, I attended the Banff Centre for the Arts. I now live and work in Toronto, where I am one of the founding members of Toronto's Contemporary Textile Co-op. My artistic practice includes screen printing, lithography, stitching, collage, drawing and stained glass.

I am influenced by my travels, exposure to various natural landscapes and traditions. My work is inspired by the colors and layers found in these environments. I worked and conducted research in India over several years and fell in love with the richness and color that permeates Indian life. Textiles, ritual objects and symbols were of particular interest to me.

I incorporate traditional handwork methods alongside new technologies; the resulting vocabulary is used to develop nature-inspired imagery and to reimagine traditional symbols. It becomes an expression of life cycles such as the Tree of Life, growth, change and hope. A few years ago, I completed a 3-month residency in Jerusalem, where I discovered the land through walking in the desert, drawing, and printmaking native plants. I also undertook a residency at Cove Park in Scotland, observing and drawing from nature. In my art, I explore memory, experience and history, to celebrate life stories of joy, hardship, loss, resilience and love.

Throughout the past 30 years, I have completed major commissions for spiritual spaces and hospitals in Canada and the USA.

My works have been exhibited in Britain and North America including in the permanent collections of the Victoria and Albert Museum, London. Skirball Museum in Los Angeles and most recently The Kensington Hospice, and the Morris and Sally Justein Museum at Baycrest Hospital, Toronto.