I am an obsessive maker. I have been stitching and making things since I was a small child, and I cannot imagine a day without making some sort of art.

Jennifer creates abstract paintings using collaged hand-painted and printed fabrics and papers. Layering – of colours, of patterns and textures, of fibres and stitches, of references gleaned from nature and human culture – this is at the core of her art practice. She is particularly interested in intersections, disruptions and reversals where positive and negative space, natural and man-made patterns, order and randomness have an opportunity to coexist and interact.

Catherine is a painter, writer, teacher and quilt-maker. Inspired by legends, stories and words in general her work is developed through drawing, painting and mixed media in sketchbooks.

So much of life is a dance of artistic expression and I’m loving exploring it in the art of Pine needle basketry. I first learned this art at the foot of Hattie Olsen at the Fiber Arts Studio. Her gentle spirit is still touching me as I teach this beautiful art form to others.