About Kim
I have been writing books and writing and delivering various textiles courses and workshops for the past 30 years. From 1 day workshops to a 4 year diploma level course. (Experimental Textiles)
Teaching regularly in the UK and Europe as well Australia, New Zealand and India. It has been a great privilege to encourage learners, old and new, to flourish and gain in confidence.
I am winding down my teaching now - I would like to focus on my own work and leading tours across central Asia with Aahilya Holidays.
Travel and be inspired with Kim
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Irish Life
My Personal Creative Practice and Life in Ireland
I have been experimenting with textile processes most of my life.
I have long been fascinated by the seemingly endless variety of textures and colours to be found in textiles and took up the challenge of experimenting with heat, dyes, fusible webs and stitch to create new textured surfaces and three-dimensional forms.
Interpreting what I see around me on this beautiful peninsula is now the main focus in my work. The local cows going in for milking, the hares in my field and the remarkable sun rises and sun sets I can see from my windows. I find it is the simple things around me that are the most inspirational.
The light here on the west coast of Ireland is quite remarkable. This and the gentler pace of life in rural Ireland has had a very positive effect on my work. I can watch the changing seasons and their effect on the flora and fauna. The local geology, rock pools and seaweed all inspire my new work, which is now quite abstract, focusing on texture or colour.
Colour and composition has always been very important in my work.
The simpler the work, the more important these basic elements become.
My small studio is open weekends from 12pm - 4pm.
May - October
(apart from the weekend of 1st/2nd August)
When Harry met Sally - from an original textile available as a print or a greetings card
I will have my range of greetings cards and local photographs for sale
as well as my Textile Art
My current work is also sold in the local gallery
