Ann is a freelance practising textile artist and tutor living in Winchester who taught City and Guilds embroidery at Fareham College, Hampshire for over 20 years. She was a national advisor for the City and Guilds lacemaking as well as external verifier for both that and embroidery and other textile crafts.   She is an Associate member of the Textile Study Group and was a founder member of the Westhope Group.

 

As a lacemaker she is passionate in believing that we of this generation must leave something unique behind, not just rest on the laurels of tradition and help to get lacemaking accepted as a textile art. To this end she supports the Westhope Group and tries in any teaching to encourage experimentation. She enjoys the challenge of constructing large scale work using contemporary yarns and has exhibited large scale works both at home and abroad. Her work is based on research and observation of the source material and this is recorded in sketchbooks that are an important part of the process of developing ideas.