art textiles

every picture sells a story 1985 40x53cm machine embroidery on satin a theraputic piece following the break-up of a marriage

dreamed garden - et in arcadia ego 1984 62x78cm machine embroidered & appliqued satin & cotton velvet painted wood frame private collection one of a series of Dreamed Garden pieces, alluding to the lack of summer in the NE of England where Paddy lives

outside from in 1984 26x30 cm machine embroidery on satin & OHP acetate Last of the hothouse series, before Paddy moved out of the hothouse and into the garden

victorian conservatory 1984 33x40cm machine embroidery and applique on OHP acetate

is it really winter outside? 1984 42x38cm machine embroidery and applique on OHP acetate

in the hothouse - watch the tiger 1983 55x50 collection of Tyne & Wear Museums, Shipley Art Gallery, Gateshead machine embroidery on satin & cotton organdie & cotton velvet

still life in my girlie shed 2007 67x54 cm drawing in indian ink on silk mdf frame rubbed with graphite private collection made for the exhibition In Praise of Sheds at the Garden Station, Langley, Hexham. It illustrates the things stored in Paddy's shed