About

Joy was my grandmother’s name. She and my mother spent many hours teaching me how to make things with my hands — there has rarely been a time in my life when I didn’t have a creative project on the go. The name Joy Fibre Art is my way of carrying her with me.

I spent years building a professional career while weaving alongside it — production weaving, craft shows, teaching, running Joy Fibre Art as a small creative business. A few years ago, I lost connection to that part of myself. My loom gathered dust. I stepped away.

Coming back to it felt like coming home. I found my way back through my YouTube channel — still quietly growing, even without new content — and it surprised me back into the studio. This space is how I’m returning: not as a business, but as a notebook.

About the Artist

I’m a fibre artist working usually with the loom and spinning wheel, always trying to find the balance between technique and imagination. I’m interested in that in-between space — where colour, pattern, texture, and materials come together in ways that aren’t always neat, but feel honest. That’s where my voice lives.

Weaving is an ancient craft, and I’m deeply aware that it carries the work of women across cultures and generations. Textiles have always done more than serve a function. They’ve told stories, held meaning, protected and clothed the people we love, and expressed identity through colour and pattern. I see weaving as a quiet but powerful form of communication, and I feel connected to that lineage every time I sit at the loom.

What draws me most is the process itself. Taking a single thread, winding and organizing it into many, adding tension and intention, and slowly building something that becomes strong, complex, and functional. In weaving, red and blue threads can become purple to the eye as they interlace. What looks fragile up close becomes secure as each thread locks in and supports the next. I often see reflections of our shared humanity in this — how we rely on one another, how strength is built through connection.

When I weave or spin, I fall into a rhythm that feels meditative. The movement of the shuttle or the wheel, the counting of a pattern, becomes steady and grounding, like breathing. What begins as the precise, sometimes frustrating work of setting up a loom eventually gives way to stillness, where my hands and feet take over and my mind can rest.

My work explores colour and texture with care and intention. I focus on using sustainable, natural fibres, sourcing locally whenever possible, and letting the materials guide the finished piece. Each textile or wearable work is shaped by process, patience, and respect — for the fibre, the craft, and the stories woven into it.