Kim Winter uses traditional basketry techniques to create contemporary sculptural pieces. Sometimes these may be functional vessels, but mostly they are artworks – she loves the challenge of pushing the boundaries to make original basketry forms.

With a strong focus on form and materiality, Kim often echoes structures and processes from nature in her art, from the mathematical basis for a spiral shell to the chemistry of leaf prints on pavements. She often incorporates found objects in her pieces: making cordage from dead daffodil stems, coiling around discarded fruit packaging, or weaving bindweed into vessels.

Kim completed the two-year City Lit Basketry Course in 2022 and regularly exhibits her work with Prism Textiles Group. She also edits the Basketmakers’ Association Journal, published three times a year.