These are examples of some of my work that will be exhibited at upcoming shows and exhibitions where they will be available to purchase. Keep looking back as I regulary add new pictures. I have a small selection available to purchase now in my online shop. Please see the NEWS tab for more information of my upcoming events and exhibitions.
Greeting Cards from my designs are now available to purchase in my online shop.
They are also available to buy at the following stockists Greeting Card Stockists
Showing the Way
Felted landscape and free motion embroidery, depicting the White Peak landscape of the southern Derbyshire Dales National Park. Lots of lovely British Wensleydale wool locks have been used for the dry stone walls and again for the moss in the foreground.
(photographed before fitting and glazing)
Overall Size: 51.5 x 33 cm
Black wooden frame with white texture mount with black core. Acid free board.
Winter Trees
My latest wet felted study of winter trees in the beautiful Derbyshire Dales.
Made from luxurious Merino, British breed Corriedale and Wensleydale wool with silk fibres, finished with free motion machine embroidery.
Overall Size: 51 x 30.5 cm
Professionally framed Grey grained wooden deep frame, textured white mount with black core
The Limestone Way
Contemporary hand felted landscape, inspired by the abundance of Cow Parsley that grows by the dry stone walls along the Limestone Way in the Peak District .
Handmade wet felted picture made from luxurious merino wool tops and silk fibres, finished with free motion machine embroidery.
Overall Size: 52.5 x 28 cm
Professionally framed Bare Faced Oak frame mounted on pale grey mount board.
Buttercup Fields
Unique original hand felted landscape picture.
Made from Merino fibres and silk with free motion machine embroidery completed with hand embroidered daisies.
Buttercup Fields
Overall Size: 53cm x 26cm
Frame: Professionally framed, painted white washed solid wood frame, with sage acid free mount
Helenium 'Sneeze Weed'
Inspired by a meadow full of heleniums at the aptly named Breezy Knees Gardens near York. Lovely watching the Helenium swaying in the wind on a summers day.
Pale Grey Frame
Overall Size 39 x 31cm
Fleurs de Papier
Free motion machine embroidery onto tissue paper. Inspired by the Betony that grows in my garden. Betony is a native British flower that is supposed to ward off evil spirits, the bees love it!
'Winter Trees'
Inspired by a beautiful walk in freshly laid snow during the winter of 2018.
Handmade felt using Merino and Corriedale wool fibres finished with free motion machine embroidery.
This picture has now Sold
Barn at Hartington
Hand felted with free motion machine stitching. Inspired by a little barn near Hartington.
Overall Size: 27 x 27cm
Painted black grained wooden frame with white grey blue mount. Acid free board.
(Shadow on picture, photographed before glazing)
Barn at Hartington
I have a real soft spot for these old run down barns in the Peak District, they are often accompanied with a tree besides them. These pictures have proved very popular so here is another one, this time at Hartington.
'Along the Lane’
Inspired by early summer buttercups and the mossy walls that surround my home.
Handmade wet felted picture made from luxurious merino wool tops and nepps that represent the lichen. The piece is finished with free motion machine embroidered grasses and buttercups.
Overall Size: 56cm x 25.5cm
Frame: Professionally framed, painted white washed solid wood frame, with grey acid free mount.
Fields at Monyash
Inspired by the stripes the tractor was making as it was mowing the grass in a field ready for silaging. Monyash is another National Park village a few miles from my home.
Pale Grey Frame
Overall Size 39 x 31cm
This picture has now Sold
Summer Storm at Biggin
I love dark moody skies especially in early summer when the Buttercups dominate the landscape here in the Peak District. Painted canvas, free motion embroidery
April Flowers
Inspired by the vibrant wild spring flowers and grasses that grow along the dry stone walls around my home. Handcrafted felt, free motion machine embroidery and hand stitching.
April Flowers
Overall Size: 58 x 28 cm
Frame: Professionally framed, bare face oak frame, soft white mount board.
Cow Parsley
Unique original hand felted landscape picture, inspired by the abundance of Cow Parsley that grows by the mossy drystone walls in the Peak District in summer time.
Made from Merino fibres and silk with free motion machine embroidery.
A Greeting card is available in this design.
This picture has now SOLD
Cow Parsley
Overall Size: 56cm x 28cm
Frame: Professionally framed, painted white washed solid wood frame, with grey acid free mount.
A Greeting card is available in this design.
This picture has now SOLD
'Minninglow and the High Peak Trail’.
Minninglow is just 2 miles from where I live, a well loved feature on the landscape in our area, which on a clear day can be seen from the top of Mam Tor. It is a Neolithic and Bronze Age burial ground. A dominant feature on the landscape. This picture has now SOLD
Barn in the Dale
Unique original hand felted landscape picture, inspired by the many dilapidated barns and drystone walls in the Peak District.
Made from Merino fibres and silk with free motion machine embroidery.
Overall Size: 56 x 25 cm.
Frame: Black wood grain frame with dark grey mount board.
This picture has now SOLD
Foxgloves
Hand felted with free motion machine stitching. Inspired by the swaying foxgloves that grow so tall in the lanes around my home. Lots of hand dyed curly rare breed Leicester Long wool tops have gone into this piece, creating the background movement .
This picture has now SOLD
Top of the Dale
Inspired by the beautiful rolling Peak District countryside around Parwich
Handmade wet felted landscape made from luxurious merino wool tops and silk fibres, finished with free motion machine embroidery.
Overall Size: 52cm x 27cm
Frame: Professionally framed, painted white washed solid wood frame, with grey acid free conservation mount.
A Greeting card is available in this design.
This picture has now SOLD
Summer Hedgerow
Overall Size: 45 x 36 cm
Frame: Professionally framed, painted white washed solid wood frame, with white acid free conservation mount.
This picture has now SOLD
Summer Hedgerow
Many of the hedgerows around Parwich are a riot of colour in summertime. I particularly love watching the tall grasses and cow parsley swaying in the wind. A joy to walk along the lane. Hand painted stitched canvas, with free motion machine embroidery.
This picture has now SOLD
Foxgloves at Bradbourne
Unique original hand felted landscape picture depicting Peak District mossy limestone walls and wild Foxgloves made from Merino fibres and silk with free motion machine embroidery. This picture has now SOLD
Foxgloves at Bradbourne
Overall Size: 54cm x 26cm
Frame: Professionally framed, painted white washed solid wood frame, with light grey acid free conservation mount
This picture has now SOLD
A Winter Walk
A unique original hand felted landscape picture depicting the Ash trees that dominate the landscape in the southern area of the Peak District. Made from Merino fibres and silk with free motion machine embroidery.
This picture has now SOLD
A Winter Walk
Overall Size: 60cm x 28.5cm
Frame: Professionally framed, painted white washed solid wood frame, with grey acid free mount.
This picture has now SOLD
Astonefield Barn
Inspired by a derelict barn on the path to Alstonefield in the Peak District. A lovely area for walking.
Overall Size: 30 x 28 cm
Frame: Professionally framed, black frame with grey mount
This picture has now SOLD
Alstonefield Barn
Inspired by a derelict barn on the path to Alstonefield in the Peak District. A lovely area for walking.
Overall Size: 30 x 28 cm
Frame: Professionally framed, black frame with grey mount
This picture has now SOLD
Up and Down Dale
Inspired by a walk in the undulating hills around my home in the Peak District National Park.
Overall Size: 50 x 50cm
Frame: White box frame
This picture has now SOLD
Foxgloves
Unique contemporary hand felted and embroidered picture depicting the colourful foxgloves that readily self-seed in my garden.
This picture has now SOLD
Foxgloves
Unique contemporary hand felted and embroidered picture depicting the colourful foxgloves that readily self-seed in my garden.
Overall Size: 42.5 x 32.5 cm
Frame: White box frame and white mount.
This picture has now SOLD
The Marshes & Beyond the Marshes
A pair of hand painted textile portrait landscapes machine and hand stitched, inspired by a walk in the Staffordshire Moorlands when the Marsh Marigolds were in abundance.
Size: 56 x 25.5 cm
White washed frame, with white mount. These pictures have now SOLD
Tulips
Unique hand felted and textile picture inspired by a trip last year to Keukenhof gardens in Lisse Netherlands. What an amazing place, I have never seen so much colour, acres and acres of beautifully manicured gardens a real showcase for the Dutch tulip industry.
Size: 56 x 25.5 cm
White washed frame, with white mount. This picture has now SOLD
Snow in Parwich
A unique original hand felted landscape picture inspired by a snowy walk around Parwich. Made from Merino fibres, silk and nepps, with free motion machine embroidery.
A Greeting card is available in this design.
This picture has now SOLD
Snow in Parwich
Size: 55 x 24.5 cm
Frame: Professionally framed, painted white washed solid wood frame, with grey acid free mount
A Greeting card is available in this design.
This picture has now SOLD
Snow at Alsop en le Dale
Inspired by a walk with a friend from Parwich to Alsop en le Dale, Derbyshire.
Wet felted merino and silk fibres with free motion machine stitching and hand embroidery.
Overall Size: 42cm x 32cm
Frame: Black frame
This picture has now SOLD
A Winters Day - Monochrome (Exhibited at The Green Man Gallery Buxton Spring Gathering Exhibition 2018)
A unique original hand felted landscape picture depicting the winter landscape in the southern area of the Peak District. Made from Merino, silk and Wensleydale fibres with free motion machine embroidery.
Overall Size: 42cm x 32cm
Frame: Black frame
This picture has now SOLD
Indian Summer
Hand painted textile picture with machine stitched sky detail with hand stitched embroidered Black Eyed Susan (Rudbeckia 'Indian Summer')
This picture has now SOLD
