Windswept
Sunday, July 6th, 2025
5 x 5 inches, hand embroidery on hand painted silk.
This is a scene from eastern Scotland, with a distant mountain added from my imagination. The sky and distant mountains are hand painted while the middle distance and foreground are hand embroidered (with underpainting beneath). The fenceposts are pieces of ribbon coloured with fabric pastels, which give the otherwise shiny ribbons a matt finish. The ‘wires’ between the posts catch the light like metal but are actually just shiny strands of brown thread.