Gallery

Gallery

These are part of a series of bumblebee pencil drawings. The whole series will be on display in my Artweeks exhibition in Oxfordshire. Bumblebees I've observed in my garden often feature in my work, using all kinds of materials. I love how the more details I draw, the more I see, almost to an infinite extent. I find graphite pencil drawing very calming, focusing my mind completely, and aiming for mastery, so always trying to make the drawing I'm working on better than my last.

These are some of my recent textile art pieces. I made these using free motion embroidery, also called free machine embroidery or freehand machine embroidery, which essentially uses the sewing machine like a pen to draw with, by moving the fabric around under the presser foot. I love to use black thread, as it reminds me of drawing with ink, and then combining different materials for texture and colour, and hand painting details.