Rugaura

Lilith

Becoming aware of Lilith, in an old tapestry at Marchmont Creative Spaces, inspired me to depict this part of human nature as a skeletal type image, inspired by the tiny Dutch Elm Beatle. I chose a dawn or dusk sky gradation, as this is as ancient yet everyday as the

Fish in a Sunset Sea

This is a Galloway Hoard inspired piece with the fish a nod to the silversmiths markings on the silver armbands. My fish flow round though, in the spiral currents and waves of time which reflect and absorb the everyday sunset glory of life. The palette is young and fresh and I have carved grooves around parts of fish and spirals for lively relief textural interest and a further nod to those silversmiths. Hand Tufted 100% British Wool

Shoah

Greenland White Fronted Geese winter on specific fields of Scotland but their numbers have dwindled terribly in recent decades through habitat desecration. 'The Goose Who Laid The Golden Eggs' came to mind as this fable is what we are doing to our world. The rivers in Iceland and here in Galloway I tufted in loop pile to mimic the bubbling life geese need to survive. The Key signifies depth of existence and the harmony of habitat needed and how not providing this can be seen as a holocaust.

Wiggly Willow and Shadows- Nothing Surer Than Change

One of my responses to the pandemic was this palette of hot danger and the contorted nature of the shock of the change. The shadows' always lurking there, whether we care to see them, it, or not; whether we care to see and own our shadow or not. Hand tufted recycled wool.

CRAFTHOUSE

Runners / Wall Hangings as part of CRAFTHOUSE curated by Cressa McLaren photo by Alexander Hoyles courtesy of WASPS

Aotearoa

Commission work

Jemick

Commission Work

Interpolation

Designed with layers of light and time in mind, intertwining history with future possibility.

Sea Foam

50% of people choose to hang my work although I make my work completely sturdy and hard wearing enough to go on the floor and be used.