machine embroidery

the kennedys & the wises drawing, painting & machine embroidery on silk 2020 alan & emma 164x94cm the kennedys 115x106cm the wises 81x63cm private commission Paddy was commissioned to make three portraits of a family, the Kennedys & the Wises, for the staircase in their Georgian rectory. They are dressed in period costume and are [...]

Paddy Killer private commission illustrates Dante's Canto 3

multum in parvo 2022 drawing, painting & machine embroidery on antung silk & cotton velvet 30x30x30 cm made for the 62 Group exhibition Essence at the Knitting and Stitching Shows 2022 at Alexandra Palace, London (6-9 October 2022) & HCC, Harrogate (17-20 November 2022) This Venetian chimney form is Paddy’s first hat since 1995. It encapsulates [...]

the brit and the great bear 129x93cm 2016 Drawing, painting and machine embroidery on silk. Painted wooden frame. Made for the 62 Group exhibition, Making Space, at Macclesfield Silk Museum from 18.05.16 to 03.09.16. Then touring to the Spring Knitting and Stitching Show at Olympia in London from 2 to 5 March 2017, then touring to the [...]

in the palmhouse 1983 42x43 cm private collection machine embroidered satin and cotton organdie velvet frame This piece won the First Prize in Rachel B. Kay-Shuttleworth Competition for Embroidery at Gawthorpe Hall near Burnley, Lancashire.

phaethon & clymene 2003 79x140 cm drawing and machine embroidery on silk private collection made for the exhibition Sons and Mothers at the Collins Gallery, University of Stratclyde, Glasgow. It illustrates the boy racer Phaethon's fatal chariot ride through the morning sky. After asking his mother Clymene if Apollo was really his father, he pleaded with Apollo [...]

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  

leo pillow 1996 drawing, painting and machine embroidery on silk and cotton 30cm diameter private collection one of a series of pillows for interiors

square fleur de lys TexTiles pillow 2005 drawing, painting and machine embroidery on antungsilk one of a series of pillows for interiors. The imagery is from the encaustic floor tiles found in cathedrals.