I have always been interested in the patterns found in architecture, particularly classical architecture and mosaics. Travel has enabled me to experience some of these and take them as starting points for my textile art.

In recent years I have indulged myself with studying various artists with the Impressionists appealing to me the most, and this has influenced my style of paint and stitch. After studying Pierre Bonnard I produced a series of pieces based on the female form and from there my work evolved into flowers as a subject,absorbing and enjoying all the colours. Recently I combined the two in pieces of work, the female form and more stylized flower content.

Now I am again musing with classical architecture, Roman and Greek, concentrating on the natural colours and the patterns in friezes and columns, together with the nature and light found in the Mediterranean area.   

 

     

             Summer Time - from Porgy and Bess

            10ins x 2ft

            Unframed on artist's canvas

Poppy

12"x 16" in perspex frame

Hand dyed fabfrics and acrylic paint, free machine embroidery

            Mother Earth - Dusk

            24"x 20" mounted and framed

            Natural dyed fabrics and paper,   

            machine and hand stitching
      

Allium detail

Triptych 35"x 31"

Silk paper, acrylic, Lutrador, free machine embroidery.

         Greek Experience I - detail

         25ins wide x 31ins long

         Natural fabrics, cotton and silks,

         free machine embroidery.

         

Greek Experience II - detail

18ins wide x 31ins long

Natural fabrics,cottonand silks,

free machine embroidery.