Responding to the fragility, diversity and forms nature has created in shells and sea creatures, I have endeavoured to encapsulate  the splendour within the layers, surface texture and subtle colourings in my evocative cloth.   The scale of the work and the  technique allows these textures to be appreciated at close hand.

My three dimensional textile accommodates two distinct ways of thinking. One involves the exquisiteness of repetition and pattern which often creates an illusion of dimension and skilful placements of colour and form that can trick the eye into believing.  The other element involves the structure as fabric is stacked, packed, stitched and snipped.

Colour and structure, as is the case with the source material, begins with its original hue and form and is transformed and eroded by time and the elements.