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Insects
Insects
Journal Quilts
Journal Quilts
Literature
Literature
Lichens
Lichens
Landscape and Plants
Landscape
Insects
Insect portraits based on my own watercolour studies.
Painted Lady
Holly Blue Butterfly
Orange Tip Butterfly
Privet Hawk Moth
Holly Blue Butterfly
Orange Tip Butterflies
Lesser Stag Beetle
Garden Chafer Beetle
Peacock Butterfly
Painted Lady
Red Lily Beetle
Insect Medley and Lesser Stag Beetle
Insect Medley
Privet Hawk Moth
Orange Tip Butterfly
Peacock Butterfly
Brimstone Butterfly
Holly Blue Butterfly
Holly Blue Butterfly
Beetles
Spinnakers of Silk
Journal Quilts
Journal quilts are made every month for a year as part of a challenge set by the Contemporary Quilt Group of the British Isles, as a platform to experiment and try out techniques and ideas. Often the ideas generated with these little experimental pieces lead to larger pieces of work.
Burnet Moth Pupa
Burnet Moth on the Flight of an Aria
Merveille du Jour with Lichens
Burnet Moths on Ribwort Plantain
Merveille du Jour, You Disappear
Literature
Verse and writing often provides a powerful starting point for me. Inspiration comes from poetry, drama and fiction. Pieces not for sale are in my collection.
On to the Eastward
Enchanted
August Midnight
Listen
Gerontius
Gaps
Moon-Made Friends
A Good Book
The Half - Light
Buds and Blooms
Descending Blue
Leaves and Blooms
En ma Git est mon Commencement
An Afternoon of Heat Cotton
Lichens
Simple fungi, simple algae interwoven and symbiotic live as minutely patterned lichens on hard and unforgiving stone. Textures on stone are a continuing source of inspiration.
The Gaps I Mean
Lichens on Limestone II
Lichens on Limestone III
Applique
Applique II
Little Gem
Interwoven
Lichens II
Minutely Patterned Applique
Lichen Texture
Lichen Texture IV
Lichen Texture V
Lichens on Limestone
Triplet
Lichens IV
Landscape and Plants
Swift's Hill
Bull's Cross
Slad Valley from Bulls Cross
Stone Wall with Foxgloves
Glassy Leaves
Sunset
Hellebores
Hellebore
Hellebore
Wild Arum
Leaves on Yellow
Descending Blue
Winter Heliotrope, On the Edge
Witness Tree, Summer
Witness Tree, Spring
Witness Tree, Autumn
Parandrus, Mythical Beast
One Minute Thirty Nine Seconds
Suffolk
From Haresfield
Lesser Stag Beetle
print, paint and stitch
with conservation grade framing by ROframes.com, 28x20cm (sold)
Garden Chafer Beetle
print, paint and stitch
with conservation grade framing by ROframes.com, 28x20cm
Orange Tip Butterflies
print and paint and machine stitch
with conservation grade framing by RO frames.com, 28x20cm
Peacock Butterfly
print paint and machine stitch
with conservation grade framing by RO frames.com, 28x20cm (sold)
Painted Lady
paint, print and stitch
with conservation grade framing by RO frames.com, 28x20cm (sold)
Holly Blue Butterfly
paint, print and stitch
with conservation grade framing by RO frames.com 28x20cm (sold)
Red Lily beetle
paint, print and stitch
with conservation grade framing by RO frames.com 20x28cm
Insect Medley and Lesser Stag Beetle
print, paint and stitch
with mount, 28x20cm (£120)
Insect Medley
print, paint and stitch
with mount, 29x20cm (£120)
Privet Hawk Moth
print, paint and stitch
with conservation grade framing, 28x20cm (sold)
Holly Blue Butterfly
print, paint and stitch
with mount, approx. 28x20cm (£120)
Orange Tip Butterfly
paint on cotton and stitch
with conservation grade framing, 28x20cm
Orange Tip Butterfly
velvet, paint on cotton and stitch
with mount, 28x20cm (£120)
Peacock Butterfly
paint, print and stitch
with mount, 28x20cm (£120)
Brimstone Butterfly
paint and stitch on cotton
with mount, 28x20cm (sold)
Privet Hawk Moth
print, paint and stitch
with mount, 28x20cm (sold)
Holly Blue Butterfly
print, paint and stitch
with mount, 28x20cm (£150)
Holly Blue Butterfly
paint and stitch on cotton
with mount, 28x20cm (sold)
Painted Lady
print, paint and stitch
with mount 28x20cm (£120)
Beetles
applique with hand dyed cotton
50x80cm (sold)
Spinnakers of Silk
Burnet Moth Pupa
Burnet Moth on the Flight of an Aria
Merveille du Jour with Lichens
Burnet Moths on Ribwort Plantain
Merveille du Jour, You Disappear
One Minute Thirty Nine Seconds
cotton,applique, machine stitch, 244x122cm, (nfs)
Suffolk
mixed media, 90x60cm (sold)
From Haresfield
mixed fibres, applique, machine stitch, 90x60cm (sold)
Hellebores
cotton applique, 50x50cm (sold)
Stone Wall with Foxgloves
digital print and stitch, 44x29cm (sold)
Slad Valley from Bulls Cross, Winter
applique on linen canvas, framed, 60x50cm
Hellebore
after Winter, detail
Sunset
print and stitch, cotton mount, framed, 40x50cm
Bull's Cross (sold)
Descending Blue
inspired by 'Spring' by Gerard Manley Hopkins
Glassy Leaves
indigo dyed silk velvet on metallic silk, hand and machine stitch
inspired by Gerard Manley Hopkins, 'Spring'
Hellebore
organza and mixed fibres on cotton velvet, 80x106cm (sold)
Leaves on yellow
mixed media, hand stitch on antique linen, 33x38cm
Swift's Hill
applique (sold)
Wild Arum
mixed fibres on cotton velvet, Nature in Art collection
Winter Heliotrope, On the Edge
antique linen, mixed media and print
Witness Tree Summer
mixed fibres 41x51cm (sold)
Witness Tree, Spring
framed, 55x40cm
Witness Tree, Autumn
mixed fibres, framed, 50x60cm
Parandrus, Mythical Beast
mixed fibres with velvet border, 76x80cm (sold)
The Gaps I Mean
cotton, applique, machine stitch, 244x122cm (nfs)
Lichen Texture
Hand embroidered, 32x32cm (sold)
Lichen Texture IV
hand embroidered, 32x32cm (sold)
Lichen Texture V
hand embroidered, 32x32cm (sold)
Lichens on Limestone II
cotton, applique, machine stitch (sold)
Lichens on Limestone III
cotton, applique, digital printing, machine stitch (sold)
Applique
applique, machine stitch, 24x24cm (sold)
Applique II
applique, machine stitch 24x24cm (sold)
Little Gem
applique, machine stitch, 30cm x 21cm (sold)
Interwoven
41x41cm
Lichens II
hand dyed applique and machine stitch, framed, 53x53cm
Lichens IV
(sold)
Lichens on Limestone
french knot embroideries VII, VIII, IX, X (sold)
Triplet
embroidery (sold)
Minutely Patterned Applique
41x85cm
On to the Eastward
inspired by a short story by Edgar Allen Poe, A descent into the Maelstrom
winner of the 'Charles Henry Foyle Award for Stitched Textiles' 2006
mixed media, machine stitch, digital printing, 120x120cm (nfs)
Suffolk
inspired by a trip to India and my father's poem in 'Poems from India',
published by OUP 1945/6
cotton, velvet, digital printing, hand and machine stitch, 86x51cm (nfs)
August Midnight
inspired by 'August Midnight', Thomas Hardy
mixed fibres, recycled, machine stitched, 82x110cm (sold)
Listen
inspired by 'The Listeners', Walter de la Mare
mixed media, digital printing 70x102cm (sold)
Gerontius
inspired by Edward Elgar. Silk, applique, 72x92cm (sold)
Gaps
inspired by Robert Frost, 'Mending Wall'
mixed media, digital printing, hand and machine stitch, 145x33cm (sold)
Moon-Made Friends
inspired by 'Iris by Night', Robert Frost
cotton, applique, machine stitch, 33x114cm (sold)
A Good Book
mixed media, paper cotton and silk 100x100cm (sold)
The Half - Light
inspired by W.B. Yeats poem, 'The Cloths of Heaven'
cotton, scrim and wool, machine embroidery mounted on velvet. 98x38cm (sold)
Buds and Blooms
mixed fibres on velvet, framed, 53x103cm (sold)
Descending Blue
inspired by woods in spring and Gerard Manley Hopkins, 'Spring'
mixed fibres on cotton velvet, 74x100cm (£350)
Leaves and Blooms
inspired by Spring, Gerard Manley Hopkins, mixed fibres on velvet, print, 34x44cm (sold)
En ma Git est mon Commencement
inspired by 'Four Quartets', T.S. Eliot and Mary
Queen of Scots (sold)
An Afternoon of Heat
cotton and velvet applique walhanging, 60x80cm