A little bit about my work
I am an art eco-activist, a member of Seam Collective and the Lead Artist and Curator of the ongoing collaborative creative project called ‘FIFTY BEES: The Interconnectedness of All Things’.
Birds and Bees at Durlston Nature Reserve, April 2025
A group exhibition with Angela Knapp and Nina Gronw-Lewis. For this exhibition, I continued my dialogue about our interconnectedness with the natural world. Drawing on my experience as Curator and Lead Artist of FIFTY BEES: The Interconnectedness of All Things, I
deepened my commitment to illuminating the fragile beauty and vital importance of our pollinators.
Through slow, immersive walks, I
observed, listened, and attuned
myself to the landscape, connecting
with the bees and their habitat. I
tucked waste fabrics, treated with
cyanotype inks, into the undergrowth,
letting plants, light, and time imprint their marks. Draping fabrics among wildflowers and grasses, I sought to capture the ephemeral presence of pollinators, their fleeting movements, and their unseen ecologies.
The resulting images, marked by sun
and shadow, were processed using
food waste, creating alchemical
imprints of this vital but often hidden
realm. Pigments drawn from discarded
food plants, teas, coffees, and other
remnants spoke to the cyclical nature
of growth, decay, and regeneration,
echoing the delicate balance pollinators help to maintain. I then stitched into these works with waste and vintage threads, responding to plants included in The Weeds Act 1959, plants demonised but so vital in our British ecosystem. These plants include: Common ragwort (Senecio jacobaea), Broad-leaved dock (Rumex obtusifolius), Curled dock (Rumex crispus), Creeping thistle (Cirsium arvense), Spear thistle (Cirsium vulgare)The bees, the plants, and the discarded materials each tell a story of survival, loss, optimism and renewal.



In 2024, I created illustrations of the Shrill Carder Bee and some of the other wonderful flora and fauna found in Kingsdon, Somerset. These were used to make an information board for the village, funded by Bumblebee Conservation Trust.


The A Visible THREAD tour was a series of four Arts Council-funded textile art exhibitions which took place from May 2023 – August 2024. In addition, there was a pilot exhibition at ACEarts in Somerton (Nov-Dec 2022) and an extra exhibition at Wirth Gallery, Sherborne Girls’ School (January 2024).
To read about my own intentions for this project, please read my blog post
Four pieces for A Visible Thread - a project by seam collective
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The Meek Shall Inherit the Earth - paper 'processed' by slugs and snails, handstitched onto vintage fabrics
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Legacy - Did you know that the UK is the 4th largest textile polluter in Europe? On average, each person in this country ‘wastes’ 3.1Kilograms each year. It is disposed of by recycling, reusing, incinerated, and landfilled. In addition to the ‘waste’ we create, we also produce a large amount of used clothing for export
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This is how we mend - a mended eroded wooden ladder, scrap cloth, wheat paste, beeswax, woollen yarn, linen thread, string, broken belt, deflated rubber balloons.
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Great acceleration - Book pages: handmade paper made from waste food packaging, paper, and card. Book cover: Waste resin and glitter made from waste soft plastic packaging.