I graduated with BDes in Graphic Design from the Alberta College of Art & Design, ACAD (now the Alberta University of Arts) and really allow that graphic training to inform my work. Although I trained as a Graphic Designer, digital creation never sat well on me. I love to work with my hands and get dirty and experiment.

I started playing with textiles as an artistic medium after I graduated from design school. I think of my process as taking little bits of the people who were important to me growing up; textiles from my mother, building from my father, quilting from my Grandmother and thrifting from my Uncle. I combine these bits of history and inspiration with bold colour and pattern to get my signature style.

I grew up and still live in Calgary Alberta Canada. It’s the largest city in Alberta on the edge of the Rocky Mountains and is getting more metropolitan by the year. Living so close to wilderness informs a lot of my work, but I am just as happy walking barefoot through a park as hiking up a mountain. I would love to live by the ocean one day, but for now Calgary is home.

I became fascinated with birds in my final year of design school. I love their colour, diversity, graphic shape and their innate sense of freedom during flight. Even though I love animals (I’m that weird girl at a party who will hang out with the dog and ignore everyone else 🙂 ). I have never wanted a bird as a pet. To me they are wild animals. It’s their freedom that draws me and still captures my attention after all these years.

I am always making something. Whether it’s creating a wall hanging, reupholstering a chair, or building a piece of furniture, I find it both relaxing and energizing at the same time. My boyfriend and I spent the last three years renovating our first home and adding a basement suite (you can read about it here). It was the hardest and most satisfying thing I have ever done! I am now addicted and will be adding Real Estate Mogul to my title soon.