Mark Timmins is a Scottish artist who previously held the position of leader of the fashion cluster at the School of Textiles and Design, Heriot-Watt University. In 1992 he started teaching knitwear and knitted textile design at the Scottish College of Textiles. Since then he has  taught yarn design, fashion design, drawing and painting. Apart from providing social media services, he is developing and expanding my own brand Dizzymafella which produces hand made up-cycled textile homewares, sells vintage textiles and develops and produces exclusive corporate gifts for companies from their waste. He obtained a BA in Textiles design from the Liverpool John Moores University and an MA in Fashion Knitwear from Central St Martins.