I am a disabled artist working with textiles and mixed media.
My superpower is synaesthesia: a jumbling up of senses in which I experience sounds, letters, numbers, smells in colour.
Sewing and creating fabrics using various printing and dyeing techniques forms a basis for stitching, a process which for me is essentially meditative. My work is mainly autobiographical or centred on personal symbols.
I retired from teaching and trade union activity in my mid forties. But I am still a political activist, working on disability issues within the Labour Party both locally and nationally.