Over my 40 year career as an artist, I have developed unique innovative treatments to fashion my imagery in textiles. I am author of three books on quilt art. My work, for the most part, references my surroundings, capturing moments in time that are elevated from everyday events from the past to the present. Often these events are common interactions between people with their environment and sometimes only between the viewer and the landscape.

My approach to the fibre medium is to start with an image in mind and build towards it, allowing room for what happens along the way. I use all manner of fabrics and threads to create texture and add dimension in the finished piece. This entails inventing innovating techniques to achieve the effect for best results.

I have combined fine art and public advocacy in community art projects. As a significant contribution and use of this medium, I have shared my art form and practice with others to create meaningful public art such as Breaking Ground, Hogg's Hollow Disaster, 1960, a permanent installation in the Toronto Subway. Over a twenty year period, I have originated 6 such projects. This spring I will be launching a seventh, the Halifax Explosion, 1917. The project is to take place in Nova Scotia and completed before the 100th anniversary in 2017.

This past year in 2013, I was honoured with two awards, The Dorothy McMurdie by the Canadian Quilters Association for my contribution to Canadian quilting and the Portia White Prize, the province of Nova Scotia's highest arts award for artistic excellence.