Botanicals Collage

I am primarily a Fiber Artist. As a young girl, my mother taught me to sew, which began a long love affair with a needle and thread. After designing clothes for many years, I longed to use my stitching skills in more of a fine art capacity, which has evolved into my current work. Each piece starts with the creation of a digital, photo collage made with a variety found photos and images. Colors and photographs are manipulated and combined to form a backdrop, the seed of the emerging artwork. This is transferred onto fabric, at which point I add hand-embroidered, single-strand, embroidered illustrations, spinning each piece into a new, skewed story. Many of the final works feel both vintage and contemporary, possessing the palpable quality of embroidery. They are significantly more striking in person, where one can truly experience the delicacy of each heart-felt stitch.