There is an isolation to being positioned on the West coast of Australia that breeds creativity.
You are living on the farthest point from the big cities of the East Coast and they say it is the most isolated city in the world. Before the internet, if you wanted to interact with the rest of the world you had two choices, travel vast distances over the desert to the East coast or traverse the Indian Ocean.
My home and studio is situated in the port of Fremantle and so I see the Indian Ocean everyday. Living life on the edge of a land mass with only rocks and sand to separate you from the ocean gives you grounding and an unbridled sense of open air and freedom.
This huge ocean so blue and so warm invites all kinds of inspiration. There is a magical sense of bounty to this temperate ocean full of promise and it epitomises Summer to me. I have literally drawn waves, thought about the flora and fauna beside this ocean mass and collected images to make textiles that speak of life in the West.
Enter into my world of the Indian Ocean and discover gorgeous textiles and colour, shapes that explore the best of summer life and an inventiveness born from being isolated.
