Much like folk in the Arts & Crafts movement, I've spent my life creating designs for fabrics that I make with traditional textile techniques (knitting, weaving, embroidery) as well as stepping into the fine arts with a homely approach to drawing and painting. Alongside this creative practice, I later studied 20th C Art History, Philosophy and Psychology. I was fascinated to learn about Formalism and grid based Minimalist art and the use of arbitrary rules to minimise any subjective experience entering the aesthetic. All my patterns are arranged over a grid, so I've used a series of rules from my study of art and psychoanalysis to create layers of pattern for the designs. I'm slowly attempting to write up the research I've done in this area and often toy with the idea of turning it into a PhD - maybe one day!