In 2013 on my month long voyage around various Arctic Seas I saw five different species of whale and visited several whale centres, heritage whaling sites and museums with skeletons of whales on display. A series of quilted textile pieces evolved from sketches and photographs of the skeletons, maps both current and historic of the locations where I saw the …
Quilted textile with digital print and freehand machine embroidery (55 x 30 cm)
Quilted textile with digital print and freehand machine embroidery (30 x 15 cm)
Quilted textile with digital print and freehand machine embroidery (25 x 35 cm)
Quilted textile with digital print and freehand machine embroidery (30 x 25 cm)
For a few years I have been making fabric whales which I gift to people on the condition that they send me photos of their whale. From my own and other contributions I have put together and published an illustration only version of Moby Dick containing a curated selection of these whale photographs. http://www.blurb.co.uk/bookstore/detail/3654599 You can preview the whole thing …
I was fortunate enough to visit Spitsbergen in the summer of 2012. An island on the west of the Svalbard archipelago, by a quirk of climatology the gulf stream keeps this warmer than the rest of the arctic at this latitude which means that you can get up as near as 700 miles from the North Pole with not too …
Date: 2013 Medium: Screenprint on Fabriano rosapina Size: 25 x 25 cm
Date: 2013 Medium: Screenprint on Fabriano rosapina Size: 25 x 25 cm
Date: 2012 Medium: Screenprint on Fabriano rosapina Size: 25 x 25 cm