BIO: Trish comes from Capreol, a small railway town in Northern Ontario. She graduated from the University of Toronto where she studied Art History and English Literature. She graduated from the Ontario College of Art where she studied photography.
Trish lives in Toronto with her husband and her cat. Her four children have all grown up. In 1988, Trish started hooking rugs. Her patterns are her own designs, mostly inspired by her own photographs. Many of her rugs tell a story about her family and the places they have called home.
Her work has been featured in Celebration of Hand-Hooked Rugs and most recently in Paulette Hackman’s Story Rugs and their Storytellers and Tamara Pavich’s, Designed by You. In 2014, the Hooked Rug Museum of North America (HRMNA) selected Trish as their Canadian "Rug Hooking Artist of the Year."
SPECIALTIES: Pictorial rugs of landscapes, including buildings and often text.