About Bridget

After having been a traditional weaver for over twenty years, Bridget became very excited by the liberation she found in felt-making which prompted her to offer beginner weavers ‘wacky weaving weekends’ where the only rule was to learn how to put a warp on correctly and then to discover weaving by playing. She loves the colour, texture, smell, and tactile properties of textiles and the opportunities of sharing these reactions with other people. 

In 2019 she became one of the artist tenants with a studio at spudWORKS in the New Forest. Communicating with artists in other practices was revelatory.  In 2022  they  formed a collective, starting with a series of eight collaborative shows when Bridget’s first entry into a contemporary art approach and her first participation in an exhibition was Into the Dark Woods, a forest of woven or felt trees growing from floor to ceiling in the spudWORKS gallery.  The installation was subsequently entered for the Chaiya Awards and was exhibited in The Bargehouse at the Oxo Tower in London in April 2023 where it won a Judges Prize. Even further affirmation of her approach has been an Arts Council England DYCP (Developing Your Creative Practice) grant which she is using while she investigates loneliness for a second installation planned for August 2023 in the spudWORKS gallery. 

Bridget is finding the support of artists in other practices stimulating and enriching and is looking forward to exploring further innovative approaches to her weaving while she incorporates other  forms of communication: storytelling (a lifetime passion), metalsmithing and whatever direction her work takes her.