textiles - wall hung

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 [...]

garthwaite with crawfish 2008 38.5x30 cm drawing in indian ink on silk mdf frame rubbed with graphite one of a series of works informed by historical textiles from public collections    

airing my dirty washing in public 2008 44.5x 30 cm drawing in indian ink on silk mdf frame rubbed with graphite one of a series of drawings of my clothes

26@62+26 snippets 2012 95x176cm drawing in indian ink & bonding on silk Made for the 62 Group's 50th anniversity exhibition, 62@50, at the Holden Gallery, MMU, Manchester When the 62 Group turned 50, I was 62, and Paddy had been priveledged to be member for 26 years. This mini-retrospective of life-size snippets of 26 pieces I have [...]

sir charles monck 1996 drawing, painting and bonding on honan, organza and habotai silks 380x90 cm In 1995 Paddy was awarded a Northern Arts Major Award to develop new work with diaphanous fabrics, the first of which was to be shown in the Pillar Hall as part of Living at Belsay project at Belsay Hall, Northumberland, during 1996 [...]

sir arthur middleton 1996 drawing, painting and bonding on honan, organza, and habotai silks 380x90 cm collection of the garden station made for Living at Belsay, Visual Arts Year 1996. In 1995 Paddy was awarded a Northern Arts Major Award to develop new work with diaphanous fabrics, the first of which was to be shown in the Pillar [...]

boreas 1997 drawing, painting and bonding on silk 273x106 cm FOR SALE Boreas, the god of the north wind, sits on his alter and warms his hands over a brazier. They are Paddy's hands!

consequences of mary swift 2011 drawing in indian ink on silk 170x84 cm Originally made for the 62 Group exhibition Interventions at the Gallery of Costume, Platt Hall, Manchester. It is a life-size consequences portrait of Paddy's maternal grandmother who taught her to sew when Paddy was 5. It illustrates Mary's clothing throughout her long life from [...]

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