I like to include interesting details in my work and have a weakness for ‘glitz’, so often include goldwork, metals and beads in my pieces. I use a range of materials and enjoy both machine and hand embroidery. I love to explore new techniques.
I am still learning, and hope to gain my City and Guilds level 3 diploma in the next few years. Maybe I will then concentrate on a particular approach or technique, but who knows?
Above: Buttons
Size:1.5" across.
Description:
These buttons were made at a 2008 Summer School with Angie Hughes and are made from velvet decorated with painted Bondaweb, sequins, organza and machine embroidery.
Left: Chinese Bag
Size: 21 x 19cm
Materials: Black bag with golden silk flower and machine embroidery
Size: 24" tall x 14" wide
Materials/tecniques: fabric decorated with fabric paint, foiling and painted Bondaweb, with hand and machine stitching and beads.
Source: design based on a limestone pavement
Title: Rose and pomegranate.
Size (inside mount) 12"X12".
Description:
Produced for an Embroiderers' Guild
exhibition "Embroidery in Trust" in 2006, this goldwork embroidery is inspired by items at Gawthorpe Hall in Lancashire.
Size: 5" x 6"
Materials: hand made felt ball, beads ranging from 4mmfacets down to size 15 seed beads.
Design: inspired by the shapes of blackberries and other berries.
Price: NFS (insurance value £90)
Size 5.5"x10"
Description: glass cabochon with bezel of seed beads, Swarovski crystals seed beads and other accent beads
Design: created as a result of a challenge to make something using a glass cabochon, Price: Not for sale (insurance value £90)
Description: Swarovski cubes, a set of lampwork beads from Tillerman Beads, seed beads and delicas.
Design:The colours reminded me of the Spring flowers that would soon be appearing.
Price: NFS