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These are part of a series of bumblebee pencil drawings. The whole series will be on display in my May 2025 exhibition in Oxfordshire. Bumblebees 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 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. 

Recently I've been enjoying combining monochrome graphite drawing with colourful hand and machine embroidery and embellishments, to add colour and texture, while keeping the delicately drawn details of the original studies. The satin base for this series was repurposed material left over when my mum made my sister's beautiful wedding dress - not an ideal embroidery base, but very meaningful to me. The threads and beads were all from my enormous stash, which I'm trying to use up!

These are a selection of snippets from a few of my other textile art works in progress:

"Why are your images so low res?"

With the rise of AI 'training models' on art it finds online, and having experienced companies selling my work on products without my permission, and giving it away 'royalty free' on shady websites, I'm really nervous to put any decent quality images anywhere online at the moment! Hopefully things will get better - amazing projects like Nightshade and Glaze help to give me hope for the future, and I recommend any artists check out the projects if they're also nervous about the current situation: https://nightshade.cs.uchicago.edu/aboutus.html.

In the meantime, the art I share online will be low resolution, and often at slightly confusing angles or unfinished, and I welcome you to come and see my work in person at my exhibitions, which are listed here.