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2020

As this blog serves as a kind of diary for me and a reminder of what I was doing and when, it seems only right to record everything momentous – not just my artistic adventures but also sometimes personal stuff that when shared serves to contribute to the world in someway. As I’m happy to […]

Textile work

This will be my final post showing all the work I completed as Artist in Residence at Winterbourne House & Gardens. This post features the Textile work that I’ve done – not the printed pieces or pattern designs which I’ve already showed you but the embroidery pieces. These may have started life as printed textiles […]

All the paintings

Winterbourne Hedgerow print

The first print design I made back in Spring 2019 as part of my Residency at Winterbourne HG is also the last I have to show you here. I had been quietly sketching in the Walled Garden when a mouse felt brave enough to leave one bed, cross the grass and dive into another just […]

Poppies pillow

This time last year a part of Winterbourne Garden was a riot of tall Poppies. It makes me a little sad to think that they are there again this year and we can’t get to see them. Poppies are a favourite flower of mine to interpret; there’s just something satisfying to my eye about the shape […]

Ginkgo

One of my favourite plants at Winterbourne is the Ginkgo biloba tree. It’s a lovely green through to yellow and then when the leaves fall they dry nicely and are sturdy enough to last a few rounds with an artist. I wanted to create a fabric that reflected the fall of leaves by printing one […]

Winterbourne Toile du Jouy

Historically an C18th Toile du Jouy is a pattern depicting some kind of a complex country/farming scene, usually a single colour (pink, coral, black, blue) printed onto cream or white linen. I wanted to capture something of the life of Winterbourne House & Gardens- it’s workers and visitors and so I opted to translate some […]

Summer border print

Summer Border was one of those easy designs that came about when I least expected (or planned) for it. When I remember back, I was feeling the need to just sit and paint quietly and re-balance my equilibrium. So I did just that, looking at reference photos I had taken I simply let the flowers […]

Dianthus

This print gets its name and colour from one of the flowers featured in it; the Dianthus or Pink. It’s one of my favourite flowers both to paint and draw and to grow at home. I used a screen printing technique called screen filler; a thick blue gel which is painted onto the screen to […]