Life has been busy in a good way over the past several months. 

Currently I am working on Sketchbook covers as pictured above, plus re-doing, sorting out this website. That has certainly challenged the little grey cells. It is still very much work in progress behind the scenes!

Previously I was working on 7 embroideries for an exhibition in Oriel Ty Meirion our local art gallery. 4 small pieces and 3 larger.

Way back … before things had to shut because of Coved, I had been invited to take part in a mixed art show with the intriguing title of “Old Roads, Ancient  Tracks”. So while I was walking the area at in 2020 and early 2021 – I was also thinking about the kind of work I wanted to do for the show.

Part of me was hankering to do amulets, based on the work of several decades ago but I enjoy the challenge of pushing my boundaries and trying to create something new to me. The goal was to capture the feelings that the Welsh landscape evoked, but not stitching a perfect representation of the view before me. I also wanted to do the complete work on paper, but I did have to rethink that idea as the paper was slightly too fragile for what I wanted to achieve. Instead I built the work up in layers, using fragments of fabric, paper, tissue, painted bondaweb with hand stitching and free machine embroidery. This piece below also included a skeleton leaf! It is based on the woodland / river walk and Pont Fadog Bridge