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Matters from within

My work comprises many different media and leads in various directions – hand embroidery, drawing, printmaking, series pieces, words and painting. All of the activities stem from/ centre on themes of private experience, sensations, perceptions and views, taken out of my own familiar domestic realm and made public. The ‘personal is political’ resonates throughout everything I do.

Cloth is never far away from human experience, we wear clothes every day: for warmth, to make some sort of a statement, whether political, fashion, social or whatever. We use cloth for curtains, bed/ table coverings, for any number of functions to beautify and decorate our worlds, adding colour, pattern, coolness and warmth.

My use of cloth all of these functions, referring to our selves and homes. So when I make prints or draw, these are frequently portraits of us as people or as bodies. Pencil lines in my drawings re-emerge as a stitched line that perhaps outlines shadows or encloses solid objects between layers. Curtains appear out of place – rather than decorating that dark void of night, instead they hang with space all around them, playing with divisions of inner and outer realms. Colour can saturate our vision as it does when I use it, as textile paint on fabric, gouache on paper, or oil on canvas.

Winning the prestigious FAD Gold Medal for Art, in Spain in 2004 was just one high point in a career that has covered extensive terrain and given me experience across Europe: organising and curating exhibitions, raising sponsorship funds, teaching art to Masters level; devising workshops and running them, as well as doing set decoration and production design in films. My technical craft and teaching have honoured me with a Special Mention and Diploma as Master Craftsman from the Catalan Government in 2015 & 2018. I set up and ran an international artist workshop with a fellow artist for a number of years. I’ve mentored at undergraduate level. Although I usually work individually, I’ve collaborated with others on projects, including design work, finding team work very stimulating and always welcoming new challenges.

Teaching has run together with continual studying around my chosen interests, taking me into fields of colour, watercolour and specific embroidery techniques, all refreshing and extending skills and understandings.

In this our tremulous world, I have great ambitions for the future. I am passionate in my approach to making artwork and attitude to life. I wish to bring my work to a wider audience.

Do look at my work. Every piece is a combining the touch of my hands, with what I see with my eyes, with how I perceive and then portray the world around me. The resultant pieces are for us all to contemplate, share and enjoy. If you are interested in an original piece or would like to discuss my work or some other project then do please get in touch. I’d be delighted to hear from you.

Winning the prestigious FAD Gold Medal for Art, in Spain in 2004 was just one high point in a career that has covered extensive terrain and given me experience across Europe: organising and curating exhibitions, raising sponsorship funds, teaching art to Masters level; devising workshops and running them, as well as doing set decoration and production design in films. My technical craft and teaching have honoured me with a Special Mention and Diploma as Master Craftsman from the Catalan Government in 2015 & 2018. I set up and ran an international artist workshop with a fellow artist for a number of years. I’ve mentored at undergraduate level. Although I usually work individually, I’ve collaborated with others on projects, including design work, finding team work very stimulating and always welcoming new challenges.

Teaching has run together with continual studying around my chosen interests, taking me into fields of colour, watercolour and specific embroidery techniques, all refreshing and extending skills and understandings.

In this our tremulous world, I have great ambitions for the future. I am passionate in my approach to making artwork and attitude to life. I wish to bring my work to a wider audience.

Do look at my work. Every piece is a combining the touch of my hands, with what I see with my eyes, with how I perceive and then portray the world around me. The resultant pieces are for us all to contemplate, share and enjoy. If you are interested in an original piece or would like to discuss my work or some other project then do please get in touch. I’d be delighted to hear from you.

Matters from within

My work comprises many different media and leads in various directions – hand embroidery, drawing, printmaking, series pieces, words and painting. All of the activities stem from/ centre on themes of private experience, sensations, perceptions and views, taken out of my own familiar domestic realm and made public. The ‘personal is political’ resonates throughout everything I do.

Cloth is never far away from human experience, we wear clothes every day: for warmth, to make some sort of a statement, whether political, fashion, social or whatever. We use cloth for curtains, bed/ table coverings, for any number of functions to beautify and decorate our worlds, adding colour, pattern, coolness and warmth.

My use of cloth all of these functions, referring to our selves and homes. So when I make prints or draw, these are frequently portraits of us as people or as bodies. Pencil lines in my drawings re-emerge as a stitched line that perhaps outlines shadows or encloses solid objects between layers. Curtains appear out of place – rather than decorating that dark void of night, instead they hang with space all around them, playing with divisions of inner and outer realms. Colour can saturate our vision as it does when I use it, as textile paint on fabric, gouache on paper, or oil on canvas.

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