Whaling carried on in Dundee later than any other Port in Britain because of the use of whale oil in the local jute processing industry. One of the great benefits to me of this is that Dundee has a fantastic collection of whaling photographs, of ships, whaling and the arctic locations. This is also one of the reasons that the …
In July 2014 I was fortunate enough to go on a trip to Iceland and Greenland. Sailing from Liverpool (appropriately an old whaling port) we visited Reykjavik where I saw orca, as well as a wide range of traditional tools and implements made from stranded whales at the National Museum and Skogar Museum. The Icelandic term for whale bone washed …
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 (35 x 40 cm)
Quilted textile with digital print and freehand machine embroidery (25 x 35 cm)
Quilted textile with digital print and freehand machine embroidery (20 x 30 cm)
Quilted textile with digital print and freehand machine embroidery (55 x 30 cm)
Quilted textile with digital print and freehand machine embroidery (45 x 35 cm)
Quilted textile with digital print and freehand machine embroidery (30 x 25 cm)
Screen Print (20 x 20 cm) of left flipper bones of the Right Whale.