Illustration

millennium plate design 2000 The design for East Hartford Community Association millennium celebration plate. East Hartford is a former pit village in Northumberland  

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.

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 [...]

tunnel vision 1996 drawing in ink and watercolour on paper commission for sustrans drawing for a LandArt commission on the Sustrans C2C Cycle path, for an embankment design and planting on the Edinburgh/London Railway line at Chester le Street. The project was a collaboration between Paddy and horticulturist and writer Jane Torday. Jane subsequently created [...]

cupola hat 1993 drawing, painting and machine embroidery on satin and cotton velvet private collection commissioned by the Collins Gallery in Glasgow to celebrate the 200th anniversary of the death of Scottish neoclassical architect and designer, Robert Adam. It represents a cupola roof. The ornament is sourced from the Etruscan room at Osterley Park in west London. [...]

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 [...]

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