drawings

il rinascimento 1989 60x40cm drawing, painting and machine embroidery on satin private collection made for the exhibition Contemporary British Embroidery at the Contemporary Textile Gallery, London. It celebrates Aquarian Paddy's 40th birthday

18thc engraving waistcoat 1989 drawing, painting and machine embroidery on satin collection of  embroiderers’ guild This waistcoat is one of a proposed series informed by Dutch hand-coloured prints, and was purchased by the Embroiderers' Guild for their collection. The preliminary drawing is in a private collection  

dutch cows and caterpillar legs 1989 65x40cm drawing, painting and machine embroidery on satin private collection In 1989 Paddy was one of 7 international textile artists invited to work with computerized multi-head embroidery machines in an art and industry project organised by Beatrijs Sterk of Deutsches Textileforum, with Z.S.K. Stickmachinen Gessellschaft mbH, Krefeld, Germany. This piece reflects the [...]

cornucopia dickie 1988 private collection drawing, painting and machine embroidery A dickie waistcoat with a quote: "prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue". It was a private commission

san marco hat 1988 painting, drawing, marbling and machine embroidery on silk and cotton private collection informed by the ornament found in Saint Mark's Square in Venice, including the poles for parking gondolas

an urnest hat 1988 drawing in ink, watercolour and marbling on paper painted wood frame rubbed with graphite private collection one of a series of drawings of fantastical hats for the The Horticulture Show exhibition at Abbot Hall, Kendal, Cumbria. A character from a painting Exaltation of the Cross by Piero della Francesca in Chiesa di San Francesco, Arezzo  

a capital hat 1988 40x30cm drawing in ink, watercolour and marbling on paper private collection one of a series of drawings of fantastical hats for the The Horticulture Show exhibition at Abbot Hall, Kendal, Cumbria. The Duke of Mantua sports the titfer. It is informed by Mantegna's paintings on the walls of the Camera degli Sposi [...]

cornucapia 1988 30x40cm drawing in ink, watercolour and marbling on paper one of a series of drawings of fantastical hats for the The Horticulture Show exhibition at Abbot Hall, Kendal, Cumbria

hearticultural seeds 1988 20x10cm drawing in ink & watercolour on paper private collection one of a series of drawings based on seed packets, for the The Horticulture Show exhibition at Abbot Hall, Kendal, Cumbria

woman in the garden, weeding 1990 97x83cm drawing, letraset, painting and machine embroidery on satin private collection Made for the 62 Group of Textile Artists exhibition Fascinating Fibres at the Shipley Art Gallery, Gateshead. The quote comes from a book of gardening lore