art textiles

sir charles monck 1996 drawing, painting and bonding on honan, organza and habotai silks 380x90 cm In 1995 Paddy was awarded a Northern Arts Major Award to develop new work with diaphanous fabrics, the first of which was to be shown in the Pillar Hall as part of Living at Belsay project at Belsay Hall, Northumberland, during 1996 [...]

sir arthur middleton 1996 drawing, painting and bonding on honan, organza, and habotai silks 380x90 cm collection of the garden station made for Living at Belsay, Visual Arts Year 1996. In 1995 Paddy was awarded a Northern Arts Major Award to develop new work with diaphanous fabrics, the first of which was to be shown in the Pillar [...]

boreas 1997 drawing, painting and bonding on silk 273x106 cm FOR SALE Boreas, the god of the north wind, sits on his alter and warms his hands over a brazier. They are Paddy's hands!

consequences of mary swift 2011 drawing in indian ink on silk 170x84 cm Originally made for the 62 Group exhibition Interventions at the Gallery of Costume, Platt Hall, Manchester. It is a life-size consequences portrait of Paddy's maternal grandmother who taught her to sew when Paddy was 5. It illustrates Mary's clothing throughout her long life from [...]

the topiary garden guardian 1990 drawing, painting and machine embroidery on satin painted wood frame 40x45 cm private commission one of the series of gardening angels

one peugeot, two persians and paddy 1994 drawing, painting, marbling and machine embroidery on silk with a painted wood frame 71x50cm a self-portrait with Persians Walter and Wilfred. Uriah was Paddy's Peugeot at the time  

walled in 2010 drawing in indian ink on silk, gesso, and bonded onto reclaimed bricks 55.5x55.5x7.5 cm FOR SALE Made for the 62 Group exhibition At a Tangent at Gallery Oldham builders working on the flat upstairs cracked walls and ceilings flooded bathroom flooded bedroom and living room mouldy walls, clothes and furniture insurance job fell down some steps broken hand [...]

demeter 1997 drawing, bonding and painting on silks 273x106cm Made for Paddy's touring exhibition In Arkadia. Demeter, as the goddess of summer, is surrounded by her attributes, as she stands on her altar. The second image is Demeter at Belsay Hall

attributes of dionysus 1997 drawing, painting and bonding on silk sandblasted and painted wood 70x74cm frame fabricated by Peter Habergham of ABS Display Graphics, Sowerby Bridge and painted by Paddy Killer for the In Arkadia touring exhibition Each of the gods in the In Arkadia exhibition were surrounded by representations of their attributes

medieval tiles shawl 2 drawing and painting on silk organza 40x200 cms one of a series of one off hand drawn and painted shawls informed by encaustic tiles