Wild Tapestries

These paintings in textile encapsulate my enduring love for art, textile design and craftmanship 

In a slow, meditative process, layer upon layer of fabrics -some precious, some salvage- are arranged to create fields of colour; they are then sewn into rows, or other geometric forms and subsequently cut with a surgeon’s scalpel and subjected to a washing process which draws out the colours and textures from underneath. The results can be unpredictable.

Some have paintings and mixed media incorporated.

Wild Bouquet, 2016

Linen jacquard double face, woven by Ferguson’s, the only company in Ireland weaving in this manner.