Nature through the eye of a needle...
Flora
Freestyle Machine Embroidery
Flowers of moorland , riverbank and meadow using the technique of free style embroidery applied to hand dyed fabric
Fauna
Freestyle Machine Embroidery
Favourite watercolour birds and animals nestling in free style embroidery
Bricks & Mortar
Freestyle Machine Embroidery
Memories of a Manchester childhood and images of Venetian and other windows materialise in red brick, stonework and window boxes galore
Woodland
Freestyle Machine Embroidery
A love of forests and trees generally leads to intense stitching of green threads of every hue, embellishing stitched and painted branches
The Hive
Pen, Ink & Watercolour
The garden flowers which inspire my work bring me into contact with many of the 35 species of British Bee, now a firm favourite at RHS shows in the form of pen & ink studies presented in hand painted and waxed black frames, tinted with gold paste
Chimneys of the North
Watercolour
A fascination for factory chimneys and their role past and present in the Industrial North, led to this collection, invariably involving the use of a single shade of watercolour of varying intensity
Herbaceous
Pen, Ink, Watercolour & Other Media
The finest of drawing pens combine with watercolour to produce impressions of herbaceous borders
Hills of the North
Watercolour and Hand-dyed Felt
Inspired by the fells of the Lakes and Yorkshire Dales… I hand dye woollen felt and apply in layers to a watercolour backdrop of moody sky