Design for a patchwork quilt The final teaching quilt for my students, this was the quilt made in the ten-week Advanced Patchwork course. We used the skills already learnt in new and more challenging ways and added additional topics including: […]
Design for mystery patchwork quilt This quilt was designed as a mystery block-of-the-month, with instructions for several of the blocks delivered to the participants each month and the final design only revealed at the end of the year. It was […]
Design for a patchwork quilt A second teaching quilt for my students, this was a follow-on for students who had already completed the Beginner’s Patchwork course. In the ten-week Intermediate Patchwork course, we built on the skills already learnt and […]
Design for a patchwork quilt This quilt was designed as a teaching quilt for a ten-week Beginner’s Patchwork course. Each week’s content built on the skills already learnt so that the students learned all the basics for machine-stitched quilts from […]
Creative practice journal As taught by Lisa Sonora, creative practice is an approach to art-making that puts your creative process before technique or outcome. Emphatically not about making ‘good art’, it’s a way of using creativity for well being, and […]
Mixed media textile art In this piece created specifically for the 2012 Milton Keynes Outside In exhibition, I wanted to portray a dryad (tree spirit) with an associated green man who ages over the course of the seasons and the wheel […]
Mixed media box One of a series of small stitched, embellished and painted boxes exploring the textural possibilities of painting over embroidered fabrics mounted on card. Media used include canvas, various threads, muslin, scrim, acrylic paints and mediums, rubbing gilt […]
Mixed media box One of a series of small stitched, embellished and painted boxes exploring the textural possibilities of painting over embroidered fabrics mounted on card. Media used include canvas, various threads, muslin, scrim, acrylic paints and mediums, rubbing gilt […]
Mixed media box One of a series of small stitched, embellished and painted boxes exploring the textural possibilities of painting over embroidered fabrics mounted on card. Media used include canvas, various threads, muslin, scrim, acrylic paints and mediums, rubbing gilt […]
Mixed media embroidery “I have heard the mermaids singing, each to each.” from The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock by TS Eliot Although traditionally mermaids represent dangerous seduction, they also seem to embody a certain innocence and childlike joy […]
