My Mother is a Seamstress, Musician and a Storyteller.
A Creatrix, a Spider Woman.
She taught me how to 'Sew'.
How to Weave the Fragile Threads of my Life together.

I wanted to be  Storyteller and to have Charm and Charisma just like my Mother but I do not. I accept that I have other gifts, talents and abilities instead. That I tell stories in other ways, my own unique ways. Sometimes ways that do not involve or include words at all. Non-verbal ways.

I am a Visual Artist. My language and choice of communication is Visual, mostly Textiles and my stories are silent, mostly!

I consider myself to be a First Nations, Indigenous, Aboriginal, Hereditary Matrilineal Artist. My children are also very creative too, in their own way.

I have studied the Arts in Britain ( Dance & Movement, Textiles, Printmaking, Painting, Photography, Film and Installation Art) from Foundation to Master's level in Birmingham, Bath and Bristol.

I did not enjoy academic life or study. I found it too restrictive and limiting for my natural/organic growth and creative development. Also I experienced  a deliberate attempt to Crush my Creativity and to silence my Natural Voice in all levels of the British education system, the arts included. I did manage to overcome the negatives to learn a useful 'discipline'. Access to the facilities and resources privileged to Higher Education were also helpful, but.. sometimes the barriers were too great to overcome.

My Practice has flourished outside, on the edge and independently of all academia, so far really. My Art Practice has taken 35 years to establish. My People are Nomadic.

My influences are the Natural World, Tribal/International/Global.

We have always travelled freely and settled peacefully without the present day limitations, restrictions, controls, monopoly, exploitation  and domination of Gaia/Earth Mothers Resources by the few.

We Migrate now because we have to, because we continue to be displaced and disenfranchised by 'greed' over and over and over again.

This Sand and Print Painting is dedicated to; 

Our Freedom's and
Yemaya, African Goddess of the Sea.

It is a small canvas

The title is Song to the Sea.

The size is 40 cm x 50 cm

It has many layers and memories woven into it.

Studio W7