Inspiration
My artwork uses simple naive imagery to create multi layered embroidered textile pictures and poems that explore personal anecdotes combined with fairytale narratives to explore hidden themes in our everyday experiences.
In my visual art I use recycled fragments of vintage fabrics, machine embroidered graphic lines, traditional embroidery techniques and reclaimed ephemera to evoke a sense of nostalgia. The poems explore the same devises such as recycled word fragments that are transitory alongside a narrative structure .It’s the small everyday things that I find most interesting, such as an object or colour or a throwaway word. I try to let my work develop organically so that I can retain the clarity of the moment I am trying to convey.
Snippits of Poetry
What of?
fairy tale encounters.
Foxed snapshots
with their tales
of ragged threads and rutted edges
fluttering against captive skies,
which baptised upon
us
and only us,
sighs of heady lust
and sprinklings of diamond dust.
