My home studio is located on my croft on the shores of Broad Bay in the Isle of Lewis. In addition to my work as a textile artist I am dedicated to keeping my family tradition of crofting alive. My Broad Bay Fold of pedigree Highland cattle are born and bred in their native homeland where they are supremely suited to the climate and terrain. I work with the Brue Fold who are located on the Atlantic coast of Lewis, and the progeny from both folds are highly prized and mainly exported for breeding throughout the UK and Europe.

My 24-acre croft is unusually large for Lewis and this is because it has little arable land and a great deal of what is considered marginal land. It encompasses a wide range of habitats including machair, species-rich grassland, coastal heath, wet heath and blanket bog. I also have the additional feature of a beautiful burn, Allt Ath Leoid, which runs through the garden and the southern end of the croft. I planted a variety of evergreen and deciduous trees by the burn almost thirty years ago and these are now mature and form a shelter area as well as supporting a wide variety of birdlife including a pair of resident Merlin.