I come from a hugely creative background, my mother is a meaningful influence on me creativity. She’s amazing talented from sewing, painting, drawing to making, along with my older sister who is a print maker and art teacher. My family has a history of being creative on both sides with my grandmother on my mother side was a dressmaker, and my grandmother on my fathers side a singer for RTE radio in Ireland, during the Second World War. My family's history is steeped in music and art. I always had a love of art from a very young age, and was always drawing, painting, and making, draping fabric with my dolls. This passion for art has been with me my whole life, I was always torn between fashion, textiles, and fine art. I studied fine art eventually after deciding to go down a more explorative route rather than do fashion at 18. I came to study fashion years later by going back to full time study at 35 which was the springboard for my brand. I still continued to dabble in garment construction when I studied fine art, making my own clothes on the side of my studies, wearing them to art college to the panting studio. After I graduated from fine art at the University of Ulster I went on to study a postgraduate in visual arts education, where I taught art and design and lectured for many years, again here i picked up my love of textiles, and developed a few projects that combined fine art and fashion which I went on later to teach in foundation art courses as a an art and design lecturer. Many of my experiences of teaching and working as an artist in the community explored multi disciplines. I liked the idea of blurring lines and challenging the norm. I was an advocate for expression and avant-garde style approach in both art, life and fashion. It's important to be yourself and express your individuality. Through the years I worked as textile maker in weavers studio, making home wares, interning for designers, and developing a freelancing career in tv and film, doing scenic painting, drapes making, for set decoration and most recently costume. I felt that my love of fine art and life experiences in teaching art along with working in the textile industry has given me an edge and the knowledge to challenge the status quo of fashion and develop or innovate  in my choice of imagery, visual communication in prints, choices of fabric, colours, and drapes and textures of fabric. I see myself as an artist that paints with clothes, making clothes into wearable art. Clothes that are also functional, washable, flexible and easy to wear, with haute couture feel, or style.