machine embroidery

aquarius 2004 drawing and machine embroidery on silk 70x65 cm private collection a commission for a friend of the Paddy

wunderkammer 2003 drawing, painting and machine embroidery on silk with cotton velvet 113x65x10 cm collection of Hampshire County Council This piece was made for the 62 Group exhibition In Place at the Harley Gallery, Welbeck. It is about the collection of the excentric 5th Duke of Portland, the former owner of the estate

queen elizabeth's wardrobe revamp'd item 8 - jacket for a jubilee 2002 drawing, stencilling and machine embroidery on silk and cotton velvet private collection The jacket was made for the 62 Group exhibition In Context at the V&A in 2002. Statement from the exhibition catalogue: "Historical textiles rarely inform my work, although I give workshops on 16th [...]

my happy? family or I haven't voted since your father died as I don't have to cancel out his vote 2002 drawing, painting and machine embroidery on satin, silk, and cotton velvet 50x29x4cm private collection Made for the 62 Group exhibition Red at Bury St Edmunds Art Gallery. It depicts Paddy with her family as in a [...]

researching grandfather 2001 drawing, painting and machine embroidery on silk 91x77.5 cm collection of bankfield museum, halifax Made for the 62 Group exhibition A Collective Response at Bankfield Museum, Halifax. The exhbition was so called for artists to respond to the collections in the museum. The piece illustrates the life of Paddy's grandfather who was a soldier [...]

east hartford celebrates the millennium 2000 drawing, painting and machine embroidery on silk 181x80 cm public commission This is the commission for East Hartford Community Centre's millennium celebrations. 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.

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 [...]