Framed Art & Wallhangings
Original textile art – each and every piece is an original, hand-dyed, printed and stitched textile produced by me here in my studio ready to grace your home, office or gallery. Pictures are professionally mounted and framed behind glass ready to hang. Contemporary style wall-hangings come complete with hanging sleeves, perspex hanging rods and picture hooks.
- Birmingham Market
I spent several days and one night photographing and sketching the sights of Birmingham Market, people, products, conversations… the hustle and bustle that makes up the character of the Rag Market, the Fruit and Flowers Trade Markets and the Indoor markets. The outcome is a double-sided wall-hanging using photo transfer printed onto fabric, transfer paints, [...]
- Where Flowers Bloom series
Inspired by an environmental quote from Lady Bird Johnson, “Where flowers bloom, so does hope” is a series of mixed media textiles based on my garden where I make drawings of flowers and seedheads, screen printed onto Lutradur fabric, dyed, painted and stitched.
- India – The Weaver
On a trip to India, I found this poem written by Kabir, the mystic poet and a weaver, over six hundred years ago. The poem inspired a sketchbook and an ongoing collection of work. How many know of the weaver? Who spreads his warp From earth to sky. The two beams of his loom The [...]
- Patchwork series
My love of textiles started with a chance visit to a patchwork and quilting shop in Colorado, USA. I was hooked, and now, over twenty years later, Im putting patchwork into my artwork. The balance of neatly formed squares combined with vibrant colours, variegated stitch and the final touch, the heat process to make the [...]
- Gold, Threads & Fire series
A collaboration with three other artists investigating Warwick Museums’ extensive archive for inspiration to produce new work – resulting in an Exhibition Gold, Threads and Fire that showed for three months at Warwickshire Museum’s Pedlars Gallery then transferred over to Bilston Craft Gallery, Wolverhampton. Fellow artists were Nicola Richards, Ceramicist; Emma Price, Photographer; and John Richards, Bookbinder.
- Coastal series
Inspired by my love of the sea and my upbringing on the NorthEast coast of Northumberland, the Coastal Series is an ongoing collection of pictures featuring textured vibrant blue nets, orange slivers of silk ‘mermaids purses’, and transluscent lime green seaweed stitched papers.