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Some of the pieces shown were photographed using a non-digital camera and therefore may not show the piece at its best. New pieces will be added as and when they become available and the images will be digital.
'One must have Chaos...'
Frame size 54 cms x 95 cms
Dense free machine stitching with space dyed letters applied
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BUTTERCUP
35cms x 60cms
Dense machine embroidery
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POPPY
35cms x 60cms
Dense machine embroidery
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MAKE DAISY CHAINS
36 cms x 64 cms
Dense free machine stitching with fanciful Gingham frame
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FLOW (nailed to background using quality copper nails)
75 cms x 55 cms
Applied manipulated fabrics with hand and machine stitching
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OILSEED MUSTARD RAPESEED
24 cms x 34 cms
Applied threads
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RED HOUSE
34 cms x 80 cms
Dense free machine stitching
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Applied fabrics with machine embroidery over
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SHOAL
30 cms x 47 cms
Painted silk, machine stitched and quilted
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SMOCKED LUPINS
50 cms x 65 cms
Applied fabrics, the resulting image smocked to give a sort of 3D effect of lupins
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AUTUMN LANDSCAPE
Dense free machine stitching
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AUTUMN LEAVES
Based on the colours of Autumn leaves. Somewhat exaggerated. Background of Calico, massed machine stitching
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CRICKET
40 cms x 60 cms
Dense free machine stitching
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FOOTBALL
63 x 39 cms
Dense free machine stitching - frame painted to resemble goal net
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GARDEN AT HIGHGROVE
Prince Charles' wild flower gardens at Highbury - I drew a design based on the drawing straight onto a piece of calico with black Indian ink and, with the coloured drawing beside the sewing machine I 'painted with zigzag stitch on the calico.
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AMMONITES
47 cms x 63 cms
Dense free machine stitching with areas of calico background left bare
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IRIS 1
Free machining on appliquéd silk background (based on sketchbook studies). This was inspired by some wonderful, old fashioned irises growing in our garden. I spent sometime drawing them, one at a time, stuck in milk bottles. Then I hand dyed three pieces of satin in order to cut the shapes of the irises out in sections of colour that were appropriate (as near as possible) to the colours of the flowers.
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IRIS 2
Some of the drawings I made of the irises for the previous picture were done in pencil crayon and the swirling lines gave me an idea for a machine embroidery using straight stitch and 'drawing' with coloured stitch lines.
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PADDED CORN
The influence for this came from an Egyptian bas-relief of wheat and the Van Gogh painting of a corn field. Designed on washed calico, machined & hand embroidered. I drew the design onto a piece of washed calico and tacked it onto wadding. I then machined in between all the shapes, starting with dark green and working through to the sky colours - this left the corn head shapes in relief. I then hand embroidered little flowery shapes and used gold threads with macrame knotted heads on for the wheat 'beards'. It's much more colourful than in the photograph.
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ROOKS BEDTIME 1 & 2
Dense free machine stitchery
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SUMMER SERIES 1 & 2
Applied silks with machine and hand stitching
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DEAF LIL
Dense machine stitching with hand embroidery
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THREE FISH
This embroidery was based on a fragment of Tiffany Glass I saw in a book. I made the drawings of fish and put together the design to have as much movement and colour in a confined space as I could. It is entirely hand done satin stitch and I worked on it on trains and planes for months - I like to have a piece of hand embroidery for journeys.
This was bought by my optician who thought £250 was a scandalous amount of money for a picture - but we think his specs are expensive too!!
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SUMMER FIELD
45 cms x 57 cms
Applied silks and threads and free machine and hand stitching
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TULIP IN A BLUE VASE
Applied silks with machine and hand stitching
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DREAMSCAPE 1
18 cms x 22.5 cms
Applied materials with free machine stitching
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DREAMSCAPE 2
22.5 cms x 18 cms
Applied materials with free machine stitching
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RED CORAL
45 cms x 45 cms
Dense free machine stitching with some hand embroidery
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STRING SPLASH
Following on from the autumn string thing, I got a bit hooked on whipped string and wondered if I could get something watery-looking. This is based on those Hockney 'splash paintings', all turquoise swimming pool blue with shifting shapes. I mono printed a piece of white silk - dropping the relevant colours onto a piece of glass swirling them about a bit and then whapping them onto the base material. I quilted the base in swirls, partly to give a firm foundation and partly to create texture, the effect of which is totally covered up by the application of the whipped string.
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STILL LIFE WITH BLUE JUG
30 cms x 40 cms
Fabrics applied with machine stitching
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PINK LUPINS
40 cms x 63 cms
Applied fabrics with machine stitching – manipulated to give surface texture
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STILL LIFE WITH WHITE FLOWERS
30 cms x 40 cms
Fabrics applied with machine stitching
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STILL LIFE WITH WINE BOTTLE AND GLASSES
30 cms x 40 cms
Fabrics applied with machine stitching
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Applied silks with machine and hand stitching
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REGIMENTAL TULIPS Dense free machine stitching Click on image for larger view |
DRAGON
67 cms x 54 cms
Hand stitching on felted silks framed by hand dyed calico
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PANSIES
29.5 cms x 25.5 cms
Dense free machine stitching stretched over frame
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HYACINTHS
29.5 cms x 25.5 cms
Dense free machine stitching stretched over a frame
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SUMMER FIELD WITH BORDER
36 cms x 39 cms
Dense free machine stitching with hand embroidery stretched over a frame
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AUTUMN LEAVES WITH COBWEBS
36 cms x 39 cms
Dense free machine stitching stretched over frame
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ACETATE RAINBOW WINDOW
“a sheet of acetate with a rectangle cut from the centre and machine stitching across the “space” created by the rectangle – giving a cobwebby collection of stitches and in the process distorting the sheet of acetate. This is suspended within a space of whipped dowels held together with whipped parcel string. Can be free standing or wall hung.”