Soft sculpture, Embroidery, Costume, Watercolor, Illustration

Danielle’s work arises from a quiet, deliberate act of transformation — one that begins in the body and extends outward through thread, cloth, form, and gesture. She creates tactile worlds where memory and intuition are stitched into surface, where the handmade becomes a form of listening, and where fiber holds the weight of what cannot always be spoken.

Her practice is rooted in observation and emotional translation. A lifelong maker and storyteller, Danielle draws from mythology, psychology, grief work, and the raw material of lived experience. Each piece — whether a garment, soft sculpture, embroidery, or drawing — becomes a vessel for layered meaning, often exploring what is carried, protected, or exposed. Her forms are shaped not only by aesthetics, but by questions: What does the body remember? What does it hide? What does it long to shed or reclaim?

Alongside her textile work, Dani’s watercolors and sketch studies offer a more immediate visual language — capturing the essence of an idea, gesture, or internal state in its earliest, most fluid form. These drawings often become blueprints for larger sculptural works, but they also stand alone: delicate windows into the internal atmosphere of her creative world.

Working with textiles, paint, and paper allows her to slow time, to reflect, and to enter into dialogue with the materials themselves. In a world increasingly defined by speed and disposability, Dani’s work insists on intimacy, precision, and care. She believes making is a kind of alchemy — a way of turning the personal into the archetypal, the ephemeral into the enduring.