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Precious Sparrow

Precious Sparrow

6 inches x 6 inches
15 cm x 15 cm

This is an original painting of one of the birds that  chatter noisily in the hedge outside the kitchen window. Their numbers are in general decline in the UK but we are lucky and have lots – probably because we have several bird feeders around the garden. My painting is acrylic onto a square, wooden panel and is ready for display. I’ve painted the background in metallic gold just to emphasize how precious these little creatures are!

2022

The price of £95 includes UK postage but if you’re outside the UK please email before purchasing for a quick quote on shipping.

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Goldcrest

Goldcrest

6 inches x 6 inches
15 cm x 15 cm

This is an original painting of one of the birds that I would love to see in my garden but I’ve only ever seen once. That was on a walk up the hill out of Laura’s village. We heard him first but after a careful search in the hedgerow we spotted him in all his tiny glory!  My painting is acrylic onto a square, wooden panel and is ready for display.

2022

The price of £95 includes UK postage but if you’re outside the UK please email before purchasing for a quick quote on shipping.

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Winter Visitor

Winter Visitor

6 inches x 6 inches
15 cm x 15 cm

Original acrylic painting worked onto a  deep edge canvas box panel.This is an original acrylic painting of one of the birds that visit our garden during the cold days of winter when they are attracted by windfall apples in the orchard and all the red berries on our shrubs. It’s painted onto a square, deep edge box canvas and is ready for display.

£95 includes UK shipping . Please enquire for shipping at cost to anywhere else.

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Needlefelted Landscape 4

Needlefelted Landscape 4

The frame measures 10 inches x 10 inches x 1.75 inches deep
25.5 cm x 25.5 cm x 4.5 cm deep

The aperture is 4.5 inches x 4.5 inches
11.5 cm x 11.5 cm

This little landscape is one of a series of four. It features needlefelted woollen fibres which I’ve free motion machine quilted before adding hand stitched details to represent beautiful poppies growing in a field of honey coloured wheat. The essence of early summer! If you take a look at the gallery images below you’ll see that I’ve framed it with a white mount  in a deep black frame all ready for display!

£85 includes UK postage. It is available unframed for purchases outside the UK. Please ask for details.

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Needlefelted Landscape 3

Needlefelted Landscape 3

The frame measures 10 inches x 10 inches x 1.75 inches deep
25.5 cm x 25.5 cm x 4.5 cm deep

The aperture is 4.5 inches x 4.5 inches
11.5 cm x 11.5 cm

This little landscape is one of a series of four. It features needlefelted woollen fibres which I’ve free motion machine quilted before adding hand stitched details to represent beautiful poppies growing in a field of honey coloured wheat. The essence of early summer! If you take a look at the gallery images below you’ll see that I’ve framed it with a white mount  in a deep black frame all ready for display!

£85 includes UK postage. This is available unframed for countries outside the UK – please ask for details.

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Needlefelted Landscape 2

Needlefelted Landscape 2

The frame measures 10 inches x 10 inches x 1.75 inches deep
25.5 cm x 25.5 cm x 4.5 cm deep

The aperture is 4.5 inches x 4.5 inches
11.5 cm x 11.5 cm

This little landscape is one of a series of four. It features needlefelted woollen fibres which I’ve free motion machine quilted before adding hand stitched details to represent beautiful poppies growing in a field of honey coloured wheat. The essence of early summer! If you take a look at the gallery images below you’ll see that I’ve framed it with a white mount  in a deep black frame all ready for display!

£85 includes UK postage. This is available unframed for countries outside the UK – please ask for details.

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Needlefelted Landscape 1

Needlefelted Landscape 1

The frame measures 10 inches x 10 inches x 1.75 inches deep
25.5 cm x 25.5 cm x 4.5 cm deep

The aperture is 4.5 inches x 4.5 inches
11.5 cm x 11.5 cm

This little landscape is one of a series of four. It features needlefelted woollen fibres which I’ve free motion machine quilted before adding hand stitched details to represent beautiful poppies growing in a field of honey coloured wheat. The essence of early summer! If you take a look at the gallery images below you’ll see that I’ve framed it with a white mount  in a deep black frame all ready for display!

£85 includes UK postage. Enquire for unframed price for countries outside of the UK.

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Artist Paint Palette Pincushion

Artist Paint Palette Pincushion

5.5 inches x 5.5 inches
14 cm x 14 cm

I love to combine all my favourite fabrics and techniques in these small pincushions. This one features indigo dyed cotton fabric with an artist’s paint palette and brush motif which has been digitally embroidered using lustrous Madeira rayon threads. It has been free motion machine quilted and the pincushion is framed with a folded insert  on all sides.

This price includes postage.

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£20 includes postage

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Grapevine

Grapevine

12.5 inches wide x 18.5 inches long
32 cm x 47 cm

This little quilt features  a digitally embroidered grapevine design which I’ve extended by adding hand painted bunches of grapes and extra leaves. I worked the embroidery over a digitally quilted design and combined it with free motion machine quilting. The fruits and leaves I’ve added have been painted with acrylic fabric paints and finally I embellished the work with lots of hand stitched French knots. The cotton fabric base is a digital print of some flaking plaster Laura photographed on holiday in Portugal. I liked the idea of the vine scrambling over the ancient wall of the house!

£110 includes postage to the UK.

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Waterlilies

Waterlilies

10.5 inches wide x 23 inches long
27 cm x 58 cm

This pretty little quilt features a digital print of one of my pastel paintings. It has been free motion machine quilted using a variegated rayon thread. The lovely fern motif was digitally embroidered and finally hand painted using metallic fabric paints.

£110 includes postage to the UK.

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Silver Trees

Silver Trees

39 inches wide x 39 inches long
100cm x 100cm

This quilt was made to satisfy a challenge for our Thr3fold exhibiting group. It was inspired by a fabulous sunset viewed one evening during the drive from the hills above Vancouver to downtown. The silver trees that gave the quilt its name were a beautiful feature of the garden of fellow Thr3fold member, Catherine Nicholls. Lit from below their white trunks shone theatrically through the dark night! I used marbled fabrics discovered at the Quilt Museum at La Conner together with my hand dyes. The piece has been free motion machine quilted and I’ve accentuated the effect of the feather motifs within the quilting by highlighting them with metallic, copper fabric paint. One edge of the quilt has been embellished with natural shell buttons secured with bright red thread to echo some of the colours of the marbled fabric.

£350 includes postage to the UK.

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And In His Dreams He Heard The Surf Roar

And In His Dreams He Heard The Surf Roar

28.5 inches wide x 35.5 inches long
73cm x 90cm

This quilt was inspired by Hemingway’s Old Man and the Sea. (I always like to have a title before I can resolve the design of a quilt and this quote was perfect!) It features block printing of the traditional patchwork design, Storm at Sea, using acrylic paints. The blocks have been hand printed onto a digitally printed image I took of an ancient fishing boat I discovered languishing on a beach in Brittany, France. The colours of the many layers of peeling paint on the old wooden planks were inspirational and provided such a gorgeous background for the printing that followed. The text is an inkjet transfer onto painted fusible webbing, bonded to the surface of the fabric and then embellished with hand stitch. I have used both hand quilting and free motion machine quilting in this piece.

£350 includes postage to the UK.

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