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 [...]
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 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 [...]
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 [...]
illustrations for gardening with silk and gold Thomasina Beck's book Gardening with Silk and Gold indian ink on paper 1997 David & Charles ISBN 0 7153 0487 9 pp12, 40, 64, 67, 80, 100, 120, 137, 140-1, 142-3, 153, 154 chapter headings & projects elizabethan gardens chapter heading stuart gardens chapter heading georgian gardens chapter headings regency [...]
drawing for waves counterpane 1993 41x59 cm drawing and watercolour on paper collection of the V&A Museum, London working drawing for the Waves Counterpane. It was purchases for the Word and Image department of the V&A in London. The drawing is in the book Embroidery Designs for Fashion and Furnishings: Moira Thunder, V&A Publishing, 2014, ISBN 978 1 85177 814 0, [...]
illustrations for the embroiderer's flowers Thomasina Beck's book The Embroiderer's Flowers 1992 indian ink on paper David & Charles ISBN 0 7153 9901 2 pp10, 31, 32, 60, 89, 90, 108, 126 The original drawings are in various private collections chapter headings flowers for dress flowers for furnishing the embroiderer's record a garden in the house [...]
little mermaid counterpane 1991 250x190cm drawing, painting & machine embroidery on satin and silk private collection This counterpane was made for the book Fairytale Quilts and Embroidery by Gail Harker in 1992, published by Merehurst, ISBN 1 85391 145 3, pp86-89, 139. It illustrates the fairytale by Hans Christian Anderson. The images are of the counterpane [...]
punto in aria 1990 drawing, painting & machine embroidery on satin, painted wood frame collection of The Embroiderers’ Guild, Hampton Court Punto in aria is a textile technique and the literal translation is stitching in the air, which is what the characters in this typical Feast of the Gods. Characters represented are Federico da Montefeltro, who [...]
the gardenia garden guardian 1990 40x45cm drawing, painting and machine embroidery on satin private collection one of a series of gardening angels
