How do we describe the places and people we know? How do we preserve and express our experiences, our memories and feelings? How do we express our joys and sorrows through our life’s journey?
The practice of making my pictures involves observing and reflecting, moving from the particular of my own experience and taking a journey through process and unspoken conversations. In that journey I am searching for beauty and balance to make something with a life beyond the starting point. It’s about searching for something that sings, something that stands on its own and connects with the shared experience of being human.
Landscape and natural forms are often the starting point, the catalyst for the conversations. With sketches and photos as prompts, I draw and paint with thread and fabric combining different techniques and media. Silks of various thicknesses, types and textures are often twisted or scrunched up, sometimes torn or deconstructed and often applied in layers with freehand machine embroidery creating a depth or a three dimensional appearance. Sometimes the fabric is painted for texture and colour before embroidery and then paint may be added on top of the embroidery which can render the medium used ambiguous, capturing the viewer’s interest and fixing it on the effect of the work rather than the material from which it is made.
A selection of works for sale -visit my shop for these and more
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Herron -detail -
Ponderosa Pine with Pilons -
Winter Bench
Previous Works in private collections
Summer Bench 
Winter Bench study 
Mother in the Garden 
Peaceful Morning 
Chrani Rocks 
Through the Ruins 
Winter Berries 
Reflections 
Pigeons in the Plane 
Isle of Wight Groins 
Pnderosa Pine 
Poppy Heads and Grasses 
Detail 
Teasels and Wire 
April Morning 
Sunset in the Lee 
Spider bridge 
Sea strand 
Sky