Ruby Cubes

Come on an evening stroll with me: swipe right to enjoy views from my wanderings up to the allotment last night and whilst you soak it in, let me tell you about some changes:

I’m changing the way I work in the studio and dropping a lot of the more commercial work. This is to free up my studio time for projects where I can work with textile waste.

Textile pollution is a massive problem in the world and after a lot of soul searching I realise I want my own artistic practice to focus on problem solving & collaboration.

You may have noticed that I haven’t generated a bunch of new designs this year, in the way I normally would. This started as burn out and then became a whole shift for me in making decisions about my future as an artist.

I’ll do a post another time about burnout, but for now let me tell you what I’m looking forward to:

Focussing on teaching - with workshops and kits at the forefront I am proud to be at a stage in my career where I can share my skills with you

Enjoying experimentation - I’m playing again! This is a truly joyful thing. Setting aside time to genuinely mess around with textiles and not feel that everything I make needs to make bank.

Collaborating - working on projects with other artists and businesses to use up their textile waste. To be honest this is what brought me up short and made me look at my own practice and I’m so glad it did. I’m so looking forward to more of it.

Claiming my name - later in the year I’ll be rebranding to my own name so expect to see changes there. This is important first me in my own journey to be able to put my name on my work.

If you read this far then wow! Thank you for supporting me and I hope you will stick around for the next chapter ☀️🤩🌟