“Creative Practice 2019”

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 […]

“Creative Practice 2014”

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 […]

“Dryad: Field Maple”

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 […]

“Vine Man Treasure Box”

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 […]

“Mauve Mermaid Treasure Box”

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 […]

“Blue Mermaid Treasure Box”

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 […]

“Mermaids Singing II”

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 […]

“Mermaids Singing I”

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 […]

“Lilith II”

Mixed media embroidery In Jewish mythology, Lilith is described as a female demon; in folklore, as Adam’s first wife, who refused to be subservient to him and departed Eden, before the creation of Eve. She is known by her long, […]

“Lilith I”

Mixed media embroidery In Jewish mythology, Lilith is described as a female demon; in folklore, as Adam’s first wife, who refused to be subservient to him and departed Eden, before the creation of Eve. She is known by her long, […]