The first figure
My new piece is called "Out of the Box" and will be exhibited in Ledbury as part of an Adhesion group exhibition at the Weavers Gallery there.
The major images are to be female as I've done a lot of androgynous figures of late and I wanted a change.
These females are not to be passive, but are to illustrate that ordinary women, leading ordinary lives, can break out of the "box" into which they were born.
This is the first embroidered figure I created, using machine embroidery on a background of thick felt.
There are ten shades of colour in this one piece and as all the images are created separately and not in a production line process, there is a lot of tedious threading and unthreading the sewing machine. I break the monotony by occasional seed planting in my small greenhouse!
The first figure
My new piece is called "Out of the Box" and will be exhibited in Ledbury as part of an Adhesion group exhibition at the Weavers Gallery there.
The major images are to be female as I've done a lot of androgynous figures of late and I wanted a change.
These females are not to be passive, but are to illustrate that ordinary women, leading ordinary lives, can break out of the "box" into which they were born.
This is the first embroidered figure I created, using machine embroidery on a background of thick felt.
There are ten shades of colour in this one piece and as all the images are created separately and not in a production line process, there is a lot of tedious threading and unthreading the sewing machine. I break the monotony by occasional seed planting in my small greenhouse!