General Election embroidery
At 1am this morning I cut up all my previous pieces of work and reassembled them into a new piece. It's very messy and quite exciting (as things tend to be at that time in the morning)!
I have assembled the three stumpwork face samples at the bottom of the canvas to show the result, which is a departure from my other general election pieces which end on election night before the result is known.
This seemed to be appropriate this time as the election process thew up such an indeterminate result.
I deliberately made the faces of Cameron and Clegg very flat, compared with Brown's as their public character is still being formed.
I have enclosed them in a painted symbol which is one I drew many years ago whilst looking out of a porthole on a cruise. The effect I am aiming for is people caught in the limelight .
Mixed media. Stumpwork, fabric, embroidery, canvas, paint, paper and pen.
General Election embroidery
At 1am this morning I cut up all my previous pieces of work and reassembled them into a new piece. It's very messy and quite exciting (as things tend to be at that time in the morning)!
I have assembled the three stumpwork face samples at the bottom of the canvas to show the result, which is a departure from my other general election pieces which end on election night before the result is known.
This seemed to be appropriate this time as the election process thew up such an indeterminate result.
I deliberately made the faces of Cameron and Clegg very flat, compared with Brown's as their public character is still being formed.
I have enclosed them in a painted symbol which is one I drew many years ago whilst looking out of a porthole on a cruise. The effect I am aiming for is people caught in the limelight .
Mixed media. Stumpwork, fabric, embroidery, canvas, paint, paper and pen.