Inspired by pen and ink mark making exercise. Turned out looking like the snow covered countryside driven through on the way to the class. Could it even look a little like Bennachie or Clachnaben? Woven in irregular satin, cotton and black and white wool with a border. Underlying textural background. 70 cm x 27 cm Delivered in a mailing tube, …
Woven in cotton and blue linen 67 x 34 cm. Inspired by pen and ink mark making exercise. Turned out looking like the snow covered countryside driven through on the way to the class. Could it even look a little like Bennachie? Subtle blues and greys with a border. Underlying textural background.
Textural blue green hanging, 69 x 39 cm. Medium weight, hand-woven in linen and cotton with a woven border. Shows brioche knitting with characteristic sunken channels and ridges, plus, on the right, the knit symbols for the technique used in knitting charts. The knitting takes the form of a landscape, with furrows and ridges of a ploughed field, and clouds …
Cotton hanging, woven in response to the theme ‘Mind and Memory’ for the 2017 exhibition of Aberdeen Artists Society in conjunction with Dementia Scotland. Abstract layers and shadows of neural synapses and tessellating connections. 64 cm x 110 cm; cotton
Blue yellow and white, cotton and linen with a touch of wool at the bottom edge.33 x 92 cm Lively texture with a lot of variety, inspired by photo, taken from a kayak, of waves crashing against a cliff. Sunlight spray and water mix.
Tablet woven cotton with metal tips. 80 cm long. A fun project to weave for yourself or as a gift.
Exhibited at the Aberdeen Artists Society with Dementia Scotland ‘Mind and Memory’ show in 2017. Highly textural, wool and cotton double weave, blanket weight. Within a coptic inspired border and a tessellated background, nine images represent aspects of memory: clockwise from centre top: a question mark; a rose for remembrance; a raven; pine tree; rosemary as an aid memoire; they …
Not pretty. Woven versions of x-rays. Pre and post surgery in 2011 to clean up joints and insert straightening pins. In rheumatoid arthritis anti-bodies, which are meant to protect from bacteria and viruses, attack the tissues around the joints. A case of mistaken idendity. Woven using the system of transparent overlays as a design tool, as taught by Alice Schlien
Inspiration: testing a new set of water colour paints, and digital manipulation
Design based on river of life design seen in tablet woven bands found in Egyptian tombs
