art textiles

william lawson pillows 2000 drawing, painting and machine embroidery on silk 60x60 cm various private collections Thomasina Beck asked Paddy if she would make up the pillows she drew for her illustration of Elizabethan Project in Thomasina's book Gardening with Silk and Gold. They were shown at the book launch in Japan. The pillows are informed be the garden plans of designer William Lawson.

the circumnavigator 2000 drawing, bonding and painting on silk sandblasted and limewashed wood frame 130x250 cm private collection Made for and exhibited in arttextiles2, a touring exhibition by Bury St Edmunds Art Gallery. The subject is a portrait of circumnavigator David Scott Cowper, to celebrate the start of his fifth solo circumnavigation of the world via the [...]

jane and the garden station 2000 drawing, painting and machine embroidery on silk painted wood frame 87x58 cm private collection exhibited at the Shipley Art Gallery, Gateshead in the 62 Group show Out of the Garden in 2000. It is a portrait of Jane Torday, writer and horticulturalist, outside The Garden Station. Jane started her business, The Garden Station, in the old railway station at Langley [...]

the stones of venice 2000 drawing, painting and machine embroidery on silk, set in plaster with a painted wood frame private collection made for the exhibition Art of The Stitch 2001 at the Mall Galleries, London, and Williamson Art Gallery, Birkenhead. It alludes to John Ruskin's The Stones of Venice. Source material for this piece comes various locations in [...]

the veiled lady 1998 282x132 drawing, bonding and painting on silk site-specific commission for Bankfield Museum, Halifax Site specific commission for Bankfield Museum in Halifax. It hangs next to The Pillars of Art in the Rotunda. The Veiled Lady is a bust by Italian artist Bazzanti, and stands on the mantlepiece in the library at Bankfield. [...]

tiles shawl 180x40cm drawing and painting on silk private collection One of a series of shawls informed by tiles found in cathedrals throughout Britain. This one is from Chester Cathedral

talecoat 1998 drawing, painting and machine embroidery on silk & cotton velvet National Lottery Commission & Northern Arts commission for Taffy Thomas photograph: keith paisley Described as a storytelling "juke-box", all the images on the coat are of stories in Taffy's repertoire; point at one and he will tell one. Paddy with Taffy in the Lit and Phil [...]

ombra mai fu 1998 50x50cm drawing and machine embroidery on silk private collection Ombra Mai Fu is an aria from Serse by Handel. It is also known as Handel's Largo. Surely, any self-respecting Persian King would have Persian cats!

attributes of boreas (detail) 1997 74x74 cm drawing, bonding and painting on antung & organza silks university of strathclyde fine art collection One of the Attributes of the Gods made for the In Arkadia exhibition. This one is for Boreas

dionysus 1997 273x106 cm drawing, bonding and painting on antung and organza silks collection of leeds city council at lotherton hall Made for the In Arkadia touring exhibition. It represents a statuesque Dionysus with his rhyton and thursus standing on an altar draped with some of his other attributes.