My wall hangings are made with naturally dyed and ecoprinted cloth and are hand stiitched.
Comfort Cloth. "There is a crack ..... in everything, that's how the light gets in". Made as part of India Flint's February Project 2023.
Smoke bush. Continus prints.
Blue moon II. Moongate.
Blue moon III.
Swarthmoor Hall woodland.
"Be still and cool in thy own mind and spirit". George Fox. Colour/prints from the woodland at Swarthmoor Hall.
From the dye garden.
Garden cloth of gold. Printed and dyed with coreopsis.
Paving stones. Exploring the patterns made by the cracks in the paving stones in my garden as the red roots push their way beneath them.
Mapping the garden with cloth and thread coloured with material from the garden and kitchen.
Held in trust. Displayed at Swarthmoor Hall, the home of Elizabeth Fell.
I received two pieces of printed cloth from @ongoingconversation.art during the national lockdown 2020 with the instructions to make my mark and tell my story. For me the kites speak of freedom. We are constrained and shut away, or alternatively enclosed and kept safe - but our minds and imaginations can still fly free.
"Wear it as long as thou cans't" (front). My contribution to the Loving Earth Project.
Wear it as long as thou canst" (reverse). George Fox to William Penn about his sword.
Making a mark.
"It is good to be alone in a garden at dawn or dark so that all its shy presences may haunt you and possess you in a reverie of suspended thought". James Douglas
The myriad colours, harbingers of decay, sing choruses of joy. Contribution to a group textile poem.