For the majority of my art-making career I have chosen to work with the process of woven tapestry. The multi-cultural and ritually charged tradition of this narrative textile medium provides an appropriate vehicle to express both my actual and spiritual concerns. The process of woven tapestry also allows me to indulge my inclination towards intricate detail, rich colour and sensuous surfaces.

Throughout history, textiles have been imbued with spiritual and social significance. Textiles have been created, displayed, exchanged and sacrificed as a means to commemorate, enhance, safeguard and celebrate life cycles. The physical, emotional and spiritual journey that parallels the life of our bodies remains, for most of us, a mystery that eludes the reason of science and the control of technology. In my recent tapestries I gather together a collection of universal and particular symbols that elude to this journey and the substance and continuity of life. The images are layered into an illusive space of shifting views and multiple perspectives to create a symbolic narrative akin to poetry. Although initiated through my own experiences, the intrinsic value and spirit of my work emerges as the viewers attach their individual perceptions to the combinations of interconnected symbols, motifs, and images that interact on the tapestry surface. The value is in the shared journey.  Interpretation, I feel, is synonymous with imagination, it is a creative rather than a critical activity.

Study of textile history has fostered my appreciation for the development of skill and the investment of labor in the art-making process. In my art practice I strive for meticulous craftsmanship and sensitivity to my materials. I believe that the investment of time and skill heightens the ceremonial and ritual associations in my work and provides a counterpoint to the immediacy and temporal nature of contemporary culture.

I hope that my tapestries will be seen as objects of expressive beauty and as metaphors for experience that connect the past with the present and sublimate the personal to celebrate the larger sphere of human experience.