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Find the lady hidden in the tangles...

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"Sky orchestra of buildings", 94 cm x 94 cm, embroidery on canvas

"Rockfield Meadows",

"Silk Road Findings", 64 cm x 42 cm. Sold.

" A long way to find spring", each 50 cm x 50 cm.

"Harerut Veins", 160 cm x 65 cm. Paints and threads on canvas.

Though initially thinking of a river and its way across land I have to now think of thin skin and tendons stretching over a surface... connecting elements, .... or the nerves of history feeling across time...

"Shiny Bay", 130 cm x 100 cm.

I have been thinking of the surface of the Earth as an ever changing canvas, that produces marks and colours out of its own nature. Not only that though, "un-natural" processes leave their traces, patches and more severe signs of manipulation.

"Dark Peak Safari", 165cm x 65 cm.

"Vast memories to walk", 50 cm x 50 cm.

Making these two it felt like a rather breathless walk to look from one end of the scenery to the other. I had to think of the hardship of travelling on foot...

I have called this "Ancient waters". I am fascinated how time leaves marks on land and how change, manmade or naturally occuring becomes visually apparent.

Each of these is 52 cm x 71 cm, so together, the make a display about 160 cm wide.

"Silk road findings", 50 cm x 50 cm. Sold.

There is this temptation of wanting to find things just underneath the surface (of landscape, of a picture, some artwork) that work as a reminder of a story or something that really did happen.

Where I live, there is this double carriage way called the Silk Road. People used it to transport silks - yard and woven cloth - along it. A lot of its history is not that easily revealed ... and I like to think of the parallelisms with the Silk Road in Central Asia.

134 cm x 65 cm, including the frame.

A thin layer of fabric carries delicate drawings in thread. These float above a layer of acrylic abstracts hinting at a landscape. The scenes are taken from places in Manchester town centre.... try to find the statue of Queen Victoria.

Dolphins can' t really swim on top of houses, or can they...

This is of a very delicate material nature.... several transparent sheets of fabric and each have detailed "drawings" on them made out of stitches with fine black yarn. All on a canvas on a frame, measuring about 50 cm x 50 cm. I'd have a whole wall full of these, and depending on how the light shines on them, they look different.

What about using this "technique" with stitched images based on  photographs of the same person, but from different times in their lives, .... you could keep adding new drawings, as life goes on ... and have a "stack" of stitched drawings for each member of the family....

Architect Barbara Olbrich (www.barbaraolbrich.de) has asked me to produce a large piece (actually a triptych) that reflects her work that is strongly based on Bauhaus Architecture.

These are quite large, filling a square of about 160 cm by 160 cm, with each one 51 cm x 160 cm x 4 cm. All are acrylic paint, glue, thread, sand and fabric on canvas.