AWARDS
Life On The Forest Floor
© 2024
90cm (w) x 90cm (h)
Raw edge applique, hand stitching, cut out section, hand colouring, free motion quilting/stitching
2024 - Merit Award for/and exhibited in the Pictorial Section at The NZ Quilt Symposium, Cambridge, NZ
2025 - Exhibited in Summer Art Lovers exhibition, The Peoples Gallery, Historic Village, Tauranga NZ
Forest Floor is inspired by the rich diversity of plant life on a NZ Great Walk. Through the circular structure of an ancient tree stump where the tree rings radiate out from a decomposing centre I have sought to portray some of this diversity. The forest floor and tree stumps offer a base for a rich and lush variety of co-existing plant life.
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Blue Sky Day
© 2025
50cm (w) x 80cm (h)
Raw edge applique, hand stitching, free motion quilting/stitching
2024 - Awarded First Place in the Amazing Aotearoa section of The NZ Quilt Symposium, Cambridge, NZ
2025 - Exhibited in Contours and Contrasts, a solo exhibition at Timeless Textiles Gallery, Newcastle, Australia
2025 - Exhibited in Echoes of The Land, Carrefour, Sainte-Marie-Aux-Mines, France
NZ is blessed with many stunning waterways. A quiet paddle on a blue sky day gives a different perspective in viewing the landscape. Blue Sky Day is my interpretation where the blue sky seeps out of the photo and into my soul, expressed through a personal lens of colours, shapes and patterns.
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Coastal Contours
© 2024
95cm (w) x 43cm (h)
Raw edge applique, hand stitching, free motion quilting/stitching
2024 - Merit Award for/and exhibited in the Pictorial Section at the NZ Quilt Symposium, Cambridge, NZ
2025 - Exhibited in Contours and Contrasts, a solo exhibition at Timeless Textiles Gallery, Newcastle, Australia
2025 - Exhibited in Summer Art Lovers exhibition, The Peoples Gallery, Historic Village, Tauranga, NZ
2025 - Selected for and exhibited with Art Quilt Australia, Yarra Ranges Museum, Victoria, Australia
A sweeping vista of sea, sand and land
Clouds race across a wide sky
Headlands and a sandbar protect
Waves splashing and spilling out
Coastal Contours is a visual response to the sweeping vista of sea, sand and land, expressed through a personal lens of colours, shapes and patterns.
For sale $1,390
Spring Forth
© 2024
30cm x 30cm
Raw edge applique, hand painting, matchstick quilting, free motion stitching, hand stitching
Merit Award
Colours of Spring Challenge and travelling exhibition with Aotearoa Quilters (AQ) 2024
Early Spring bulbs burst forth through the still cold days, heralding a change of season.
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Homage to the Shoofly
© 2023
40cm (w) x 80cm (h)
Raw edge applique, hand painting, hand stitching, free motion stitching, straight stitch quilting
2023 - First Place
Aotearoa Quilters Members Challenge
AQ travelling exhibition 2023
When light patterns are cast upon the platform high up in the tree tops of the Night Lights Tree Walk in the Redwoods, Rotorua, they become the inspiration for a modern interpretation of the Shoo Fly quilt pattern. A hand painted pattern which lights up and sparkles under spotlights.
For sale $650
Treelines
© 2022
80cm (w) x 40cm (h)
Free motion stitching/quilting, hand painted
2022 - Merit Award
Aotearoa Quilters (AQ) Members “Lines” Challenge
AQ travelling exhibition 2022
Lines of trees bordering fields, protecting, delineating, uniform in their appearance, often gracing the horizon line. In the cold of winter the ghostly lines of bare branches against the dark of night create a lace like impression back lit by the dying rays of the sun.
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Winters Quiescence
© 2022
99cm (w) x 52cm (h)
Raw edge applique, hand painted, straight stitch quilted, free machine stitching
2022 - Awarded Merit for Excellence
NZ Symposium, Lower Hutt
2023 - Awarded Merit in the Art Quilt section
The Great New Zealand Quilt Show, Rotorua
2023 - Selected for Art Quilt Australia
Exhibition at The Wool Museum, Victoria, Australia
In the depth of Winter where landscapes can feel leached of colour and deciduous trees spread their ghostly shapes, there is beauty in the muted colours and simple shapes. Dormancy, resembling deep sleep creates an ethereal quality of calm and belies the danger of the depth of cold and freezing conditions. Using the idea of Winter dormancy as a period of rest and coming after an Autumn season of stripping back to bare basics, I have abstracted the design to its simplest form to enhance the concept of rest, the conservation of energy and internal protection from external elements. Techniques include: matchstick quilting, hand colouring using Inktense pencils, raw edge applique, hand stitching, free motion stitching
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Tranquil Waters
© 2021
75cm x 75cm
Raw edge applique, hand painted using Acrylic paints, matchstick quilting, free motion stitching/quilting
2021 - Merit Award
Aotearoa Quilter’s Members Challenge “Reflections“
AQ travelling exhibition 2022
Not a breath of wind disturbs the tranquility of the reflections as I meander along the waters edge, absorbing the soulful stillness and serenity of the lake.
For sale $915
Fissure
© 2019 Framed
42cm (w) x 37.5cm (h)
Free motion embroidery
2019 - Second Prize
Textiles, Non Functional
Franklin Art Festival, Auckland, New Zealand
Fissure meaning “a long, narrow opening or line”. This image was inspired by a 10 day study of a flower (a gerbera) and each day I photographed the difference in the flower. Day 4 has been translated into a thread painting and I particularly liked the long narrow white line that separates the top from the bottom sections of the flower, hence the title.
For sale $795
An Invisible Thread
© 2018
60cm (w) x 100cm (h)
Raw edge applique, hand painted, matchstick quilting, free motion stitching, hand stitching, cut out
2020 - Award of Merit
NACQJ (National Association of Certified Quilt Judges)
Mancuso Online Quilt Festival, USA
2018 - 2021 SAQA Oceania “Connections” touring exhibition
Australia and New Zealand
“An invisible thread connects those who are destined to meet, regardless of time, place and circumstance. The thread may stretch or tangle but it will never break.” Ancient Chinese Proverb
“An Invisible Thread” is a multi-layered exploration of the connection experienced between a mother and child, and a reflection on my experience of connection through adoption. The connection and bond I experienced in adopting my two children was immediate and has grown and developed over the years of parenting them, a bond which might stretch and tangle but it will never break. In the process of creating this image I also acknowledged the invisible thread that connects me to their biological mothers and the thread of friendship with the artist(also a mother) of the original sculpture used as inspiration.
Inspiration for this art quilt was drawn from a sculpture by Libby Levey, who has given me written permission to use her sculpture as the basis for exploring this theme.
Each Day a New Page
© 2018
90cm x 90cm
Raw edge applique, straight stitch quilting, hand stitching
2019 - First Place
Medium Quilts
The Great NZ Quilt Show, Rotorua, New Zealand
2019 - Exhibition
“Nature’s Abstraction”
Timeless Textiles, Newcastle, Australia
2019 - Exhibition
Tutors Exhibition
Auckland Quilt Symposium, New Zealand
This art quilt is drawn from a series of daily watercolour paintings which were based on using the chrysalis as a personal symbol for growth.
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An Art Deco Echo
© 2018
30cm (w) x 50cm (h)
Raw edge applique, hand coloured/painted, matchstick quilting, free machine stitching
Merit Prize
Aotearoa Quilters Members Art Deco Challenge
Selected for Travelling Exhibition
In my previous life – across the Tasman – our home had Art Deco features such as ornate ceilings, which I loved. This quilt is a trip down memory lane, revisiting a past life and revisiting a past art movement. It is a modern interpretation of luxury and exuberance; an ‘echo’ of Art Deco.
For sale $450
Firewheel Spectacular 2
© 2018
47cm (w) x 102cm (h)
Raw edge applique, matchstick quilting, hand coloured using Inktense pencils and acrylic paints, free machine quilting/stitching
2019 - Merit Award
Medium Quilt
The Great NZ Quilt Show
2018 - Finalist
Miles Art Awards
Tauranga Art Gallery
Artists statement: The third art quilt in my Firewheel Flower series, Firewheel Spectacular 2 continues to explore the positive and negative shapes of the Firewheel flower, deconstructing and reconstructing into new possibilities – perhaps an underwater world, a new cosmos, or under the microscope…
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"Leafy" Sea Dragon
© 2015
126cm x 102cm
Free motion quilting, hand coloured
2015 - Third Place
Innovative section
World Quilt Competition XIX, USA
Inspired by the extraordinary delicacy of the Leafy Sea Dragon, this quilt is the culmination of many hours of drawing intuitively with my sewing machine, and many many hours of hand colouring and painting.
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