armada portrait 2017 drawing in white ink on glass 30x30cm one of a series of drawings on glass made for Paddy's exhibition Drawn Thread Work - samplers & specimens at Customs House Gallery, South Shields from 17.11.17 to 31.03.18. This drawing is sourced from the collars in Armada Portraits of Elizabeth 1
anatomy of change drawing and painting on silk, painted wood, string, a nail h188.54xw91cm 2018 ARTISTS STATEMENT “The outside of you belies what is going on inside”, is what my great friend, Vicky Watling, my art teacher at school, says about me. The pain causing autoimmune diseases began at school, but it was years later [...]
the brit and the great bear 129x93cm 2016 Drawing, painting and machine embroidery on silk. Painted wooden frame. Made for the 62 Group exhibition, Making Space, at Macclesfield Silk Museum from 18.05.16 to 03.09.16. Then touring to the Spring Knitting and Stitching Show at Olympia in London from 2 to 5 March 2017, then touring to the [...]
living at belsay exhibition 1996 a contemporary approach to furnishing an historic house : 4 may - 25 october 1996, belsay hall, northumberland In 1995 Paddy was awarded a Northern Arts Major Award to develop new work with diaphanous fabrics, the first of which wase shown in the Pillar Hall as part of Living at Belsay project at [...]
in the palmhouse 1983 42x43 cm private collection machine embroidered satin and cotton organdie velvet frame This piece won the First Prize in Rachel B. Kay-Shuttleworth Competition for Embroidery at Gawthorpe Hall near Burnley, Lancashire.
phaethon & clymene 2003 79x140 cm drawing and machine embroidery on silk private collection made for the exhibition Sons and Mothers at the Collins Gallery, University of Stratclyde, Glasgow. It illustrates the boy racer Phaethon's fatal chariot ride through the morning sky. After asking his mother Clymene if Apollo was really his father, he pleaded with Apollo [...]
garthwaite with crawfish 2008 38.5x30 cm drawing in indian ink on silk mdf frame rubbed with graphite one of a series of works informed by historical textiles from public collections
airing my dirty washing in public 2008 44.5x 30 cm drawing in indian ink on silk mdf frame rubbed with graphite one of a series of drawings of my clothes
26@62+26 snippets 2012 95x176cm drawing in indian ink & bonding on silk Made for the 62 Group's 50th anniversity exhibition, 62@50, at the Holden Gallery, MMU, Manchester When the 62 Group turned 50, I was 62, and Paddy had been priveledged to be member for 26 years. This mini-retrospective of life-size snippets of 26 pieces I have [...]
the bride wore black 2006 drawing and bonding on glass and silk wooden frame rubbed with graphite 41.5x4.15x8.0 cm FOR SALE made for the 62 Group Tracing Threads at Hove Art Gallery. This is a 3D piece with 3 layers of glass. Each layer has drawing in Indian ink. The middle layer has drawing and bonding
