In the process of making a textile, the craftsperson applies their concentration in a meditative fashion, repeating patterns and actions over and over until the piece is complete.  In my art making I use drawing as a meditation.  It is the medium that gets me connected most quickly and deeply to my feelings.  Immediate, it shows me where I am at, right away.  It is honest.  And by drawing textiles and observing them closely I am aiming to get to the heart of the work and it’s maker as a type of honouring of those who have gone before me.

For the last twenty years I have worked as a Psychologist and Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist in private practice in Prahran, Melbourne.  This work is about using myself as a tool to facilitate the growth of another person’s mind, so they can think about their thoughts, feelings, desires, dreams, pain, longings and hopes.  Slowly, session after session I see people’s guard come down which allows a mourning process to unfold, softening their spirit in the process.  Being in the privileged position of witnessing the slow unfolding of another’s psyche deeply impacts on my own.  The intensity and beauty as well as the exquisite sorrow of this work is a type of soul poetry which I am searching to express and honour in my drawings and textiles.