Blue Tit
Acrylic painting on wooden panel
10″ x 10″ x 1.5″
25cm x 25cm x 3.5cm
This painting features a Blue Tit on a gold metallic background applied over a red ground.
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Blue Tit
Tag: Birds
Green woodpecker
Green Woodpecker
Acrylic painting on wooden panel
25cm x 25cm x 3cm
I hear these in the garden more often than I see them – they’re chatty but very shy birds! My woodpecker is depicted against a gold metallic background with red underpainting.
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Ragged and Black
Ragged and Black
53 inches x 69.5 inches
135cm x 175cm
Ragged and Black is a lyric from a Joni Mitchell song. I like to work with a title right from the start when I’m making a quilt and these words seemed to fit my crow character perfectly. The original image was a painting I made using gouache and Indian ink on watercolour paper. The image was scanned and digitally printed on a wide format printer using fibre reactive dyes. I free motion quilted the printed, wholecloth image and added detail with fabric painting and digitally embroidered text.
£525
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All the Birds
All the Birds
82cm x 138cm
My daughter Laura and I worked on this piece together. The birds are some of my hand painted watercolours – Laura has carefully arranged them on the branches of a magnificent old tree photographed in her garden. The assembled elements were digitally printed onto cotton fabric and then free motion quilted. The text you can see in the spaces between the branches is a phrase from a Neil Young song, “There you stood on the edge of a feather, expecting to fly.”.
£650
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Flock
Flock
222cm x 193cm
This is a piece that my daughter Laura and I made together. We used hand dyed cotton and linen fabrics pieced in sections, free motion quilted, bound and then only partially connected. We wanted to create a sense of the chaotic movement you experience when a flock of birds is disturbed and soars noisily to the sky. The birds are appliquéd and stencilled with added pastel and paint detail.
£900
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Some Day I’ll Fly Away
Some Day I'll Fly Away
39.5 inches x 58.5 inches
100cm x 149cm
This is one of my favourite quilts! It started life as one of my gouache and Indian ink paintings on a box canvas. The painting was photographed and the image digitally printed onto cotton poplin fabric by Jamie at the Fingerprint studio. I free motion quilted the wholecloth print and added the text added using foam alphabet stamps. The digital print is so faithful to the original – it shows every brushmark and even the texture of the canvas surface! If you take a look at the detail images below you’ll see how much the painting was enlarged to become the quilt.
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The Messenger
The Messenger
58 inches x 39 inches
147cm x 99cm
This quilt was created by digitally printing an open spread page of my sketchbook. The original image was a gouache and Indian ink painting with stamped motifs using gold metallic acrylic paint. I carved the motif from a symbol I discovered on a vase at my local museum. I was intrigued by the shape of the symbol and I’m told it means longevity however, I used it as decorative pattern and wasn’t concerned that in printing I reversed the image!
