textiles - wall hung

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 [...]

the veiled lady 1998 282x132 drawing, bonding and painting on silk site-specific commission for Bankfield Museum, Halifax Site specific commission for Bankfield Museum in Halifax. It hangs next to The Pillars of Art in the Rotunda. The Veiled Lady is a bust by Italian artist Bazzanti, and stands on the mantlepiece in the library at Bankfield. [...]

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!

attributes of boreas (detail) 1997 74x74 cm drawing, bonding and painting on antung & organza silks university of strathclyde fine art collection One of the Attributes of the Gods made for the In Arkadia exhibition. This one is for Boreas

dionysus 1997 273x106 cm drawing, bonding and painting on antung and organza silks collection of leeds city council at lotherton hall Made for the In Arkadia touring exhibition. It represents a statuesque Dionysus with his rhyton and thursus standing on an altar draped with some of his other attributes.

chloris 1997 273x106 cm drawing, painting and bonding on silk private collection photograph: keith paisley Made for the In Arkadia touring exhibition. Chloris, as the goddess of spring, is surrounded by her attributes, as she stands on her altar

revels 1997 285x107cm drawing and machine embroidery on silk, painted wood frame private collection Made for the In Arkadia touring exhibition. This work portrays everyone who worked on the exhibition, and the gods, partaking in the sacred rites of Dionysus, who is sitting down after imbibing too much.  

northern lights and northern sights 1996 489x737 drawing, painting and machine embroidery on silk, painted wood frame air uk commission Commissioned by Air Uk for their 1997 calendar. 12 artists were each sent to a destination Air UK flew to and were commissioned to make a work for that destination. Paddy was sent to Madrid an then to Aberdeen

the pillars of art 1994 235x140 drawing, painting and machine embroidery on silk site-specific commission for Bankfield Museum, Halifax a site-specific commission for Bankfield Museum in Halifax. It is a quardratura view includes Edward Akroyd who built it, his life and details found in the museum and aspects of Halifax. Paddy and her cats are in it. [...]