private collections

chloris plate drawing 1999 drawing and painting in underglaze on a bisque fired plate this is the working drawing produced by Paddy on the computer for one of four plates drawn and painted by Paddy and glazed and fired by Paul Scott for the exhibition The Plate Show, which he curated at the Collins Gallery in Glasgow

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 [...]

tiles shawl 180x40cm drawing and painting on silk private collection One of a series of shawls informed by tiles found in cathedrals throughout Britain. This one is from Chester Cathedral

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 [...]

ombra mai fu 1998 50x50cm drawing and machine embroidery on silk private collection Ombra Mai Fu is an aria from Serse by Handel. It is also known as Handel's Largo. Surely, any self-respecting Persian King would have Persian cats!

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 [...]

belsay capital 1997 sandblasted marble Fabricated by Peter Habergham of ABS Dislay Graphics for the In Arkadia touring exhibition.