There is more of my more recent mixed media work on other pages, in particular, THINKING OF THE SEA and EXPERIMENTAL WORK.
February 11, 2012
Due to family ill health and a trip to New Zealand in the months before the Mainly Stitch exhibition, I was not planning to exhibit in 2011. However, I decided to display two of my wire woven forms at Ilam in June and then more when we exhibited at the Arkwright Mill at Cromford in August. Photographing this work is very difficult and some of the forms illustrated have grown or changed since photographing. I have more work to add and images of my ‘colour mixing’ with wire and thread.
May 07, 2018
More recent updates of wire work. Some of the work in The GROWTH album have grown!
May 05, 2017
I am experimenting with aluminium wires in my wire weaving using the colours of the sea. The form is still a spiral, as in my other wire work, although I am using the colours of the sea as inspiration.
I have experimented with another piece, initially thinking of it as a wave form but it is so organic it has to be a ‘creature’, incorporating strips of transfer printed Lutradur and stitch. (Images yet to be added)
Another experiment is using a painted background canvas and wrapping wires horizontally to give texture. This work is still experimental and I will add a picture shortly.
February 10, 2012
My work for the Mainly Stitch exhibitions at Ilam and The Ridgeway Gallery at Bakewell was based on the Fibonacci series and spiral growth. It is a development from previous work, taking the twist of the boxes from the Collections exhibition and applying them to the Fibonacci diagram. I made strategic cuts in the forms and stitched them very heavily with free machining to contort them. There is no wire in these forms! Spirals and this number pattern occur everywhere in nature and fascinate me.
January 29, 2012
This is some of my stitch work at Mainly Stitch exhibitions in 2007. It is based on a collection of natural packaging in the form of scanned shells, and a particularly imaginative man-made box.
January 29, 2012
This is some of my stitch work at Mainly Stitch exhibitions in 2007. It is based on a collection of natural packaging in the form of scanned shells, and a particularly imaginative man-made box.
January 29, 2012
This is some of my stitch work at Mainly Stitch exhibitions in 2005. All this work is inspired by snail shells which I had scanned and of course the favourite food of snails in our garden, David’s prize Hostas!
February 02, 2012
My work for the Mainly Stitch RESPONSES exhibition at the National Trust Ilam Park visitor centre was inspired by water avens (Geum rivali) which grow prolifically beside the river.