Latest Exhibition

I have two pictures in the Nottingham Society of artists Affiliates exhibition which is on until 17th February.  It is in their ground floor gallery on Friar Lane, in central Nottingham, which is open from 10-4.30 every day except the last day of the exhibition when it closes at 4pm.  My two pictures are textile pieces exploring the design and function of the brain through cross sectional images.  Childlike pastel colours were chosen to make the pictures deliberately simplistic and less intimidating.

Pictures inspired by the natural world

For a long time I have enjoyed photographing the detail of nature. The patterns and colours that are found in tree barks and moss or lichen covered stones are more vibrant and varied than might be expected. I either use the photos to inspire works or print them on fabric so that they can be enriched with hand embroidery. I find these works lend themselves well to my creative freestyle hand embroidery. If you are interested in this style then please check out the nature section of my gallery.

Using science as art

While carrying out immunohistochemistry in a medical research lab, I started noticing a similar variety of patterns in the microscopic images of cells, to those I had been finding in the natural world. This led to a number of hand embroideries and a growing fascination for blurring he boundaries between art and science. I am currently working on a series of quilted works based on diagrammatic images of the human body. There is a sci-art section in my gallery