My wall tapestries are woven vertically from the bottom up, on an upright scaffolding loom, or High Warp. I draw up a black and white 'cartoon', as a tapestry design drawing is called, and this hangs life-size behind the weaving. I weave from the front of the loom. Because I work from a black and white cartoon, I put in the colours as I go. This means I am not confined simply to manufacturing a tapestry from a completed idea, but am free to change my tapestries as I wish. I enjoy the risky side of this kind of decision-making process, as it keeps the long slow hours of weaving constantly interesting.

I use a cotton warp, and weave mainly with wool. As my wool comes from a variety of sources, this gives my work a textured quality. I weave out of my own personal experience, and when this is combined with my materials and technique this results in pieces which are individual and unique. Some of my tapestries are available for sale.

The notion "Weaving Australia" in tapestry designs has led to my preoccupation with the following themes that have developed in my wall tapestries:

• The exploration and subsequent colonisation of Australia by white settlers.
• How we come to terms with our presence in someone else's land.
• Exterior space versus interior personal space within the land.
• What makes a sacred site? Can the land be a spiritual home, and what does this mean?
• How do we feel "at home" in the land?
• "First-hand" and "second-hand" experience. Is one more authentic than the other?
• The boundaries between things, e.g. landscape and reading, music and landscape, poetry and pictures, ducking and weaving, nature and nurture, home and exile, seeing and believing, reason and imagination.
• Naming and classifying: to gain control, to tame the wild, to own and order what we see, we sort and weed the landscape.