Quilts

Some of the quilts listed below are now offered for sale. Please email if you are interested to buy or have questions about shipping.

Paintbox

This quilt is a digital print of my favourite watercolour paintbox and palette. It was free machine quilted with 36 colours of Madeira Rayon and Cotona threads. It won the French Patchwork Guild Award and the Machine Quilting Award, sponsored by HandiQuilter, at Carrefour European du Patchwork in Alsace 2016.


Ragged and Black

 This quilt is a digital print of one of my gouache and indian ink paintings. It is free motion quilted with hand painted detail and digitally embroidered text.
53in wide x 69.5ins high
£825

Ragged and Black (detail).

Ragged and Black (detail).

The Messenger

This quilt was inspired by the crows, rooks and jackdaws that live all around my house. 

The Messenger (detail).

The Messenger was digitally printed from my original gouache and Indian ink painting.
58in wide x 39ins high
£500


Some Day I'll Fly Away

39.5ins wide x 58.5ins high

Some Day I'll Fly Away (detail).

Some Day I'll Fly Away (detail).

This is another digitally printed whole cloth quilt. The printing process is really faithful to the original painting, showing even the woven texture of the painted canvas.

Edge of a Feather

This is a piece my daughter Laura and I worked on together. It combines my hand painted garden birds with an image of a wonderful old tree in her garden. The design was digitally printed onto cotton poplin fabric. We free motion quilted the the whole thing voiding low-key text in the background.
32.5ins wide x 54.5ins high
£650

Edge of a Feather 

Greater Spotted Woodpecker detail.

Edge of a Feather

Green Woodpecker detail

Edge of a Feather

Chaffinch detail

Edge of a Feather

Wren detail

And In His Dreams He Heard the Surf Roar

Digital print layered with block printing, appliquéd text, hand stitching and free motion quilting.

Detail of applied text.
28ins wide x 35ins high
£450

Big Wave 2

In this quilt I combined the traditional Storm at Sea design with free motion and hand quilting. The crest of the wave was hand painted while the rest of the design was block printed using acrylic paints.

Big Wave 2

detail.
£250

Blue Moon Rising 

Blue Moon Rising was inspired by my local landscape in winter. The trees and moon were discharged from black linen and the foreground simply pieced using cotton fabrics.

31ins wide x 41 ins high
£375


Sometimes the Moon Is Blue

This quilt features discharge techniques with lino block printing and hand painting. It is hand stitched and free motion machine quilted.
33.5ins wide x 44.5ins high
£450


Red Planet

This quilt is pieced using cotton and linen fabrics with discharge printing, hand painting, stencilling and free motion quilting.

Red Planet (detail)

27ins wide x 37ins high

£375

Safe Haven

This quilt brings together one of my favourite traditional designs, Attic Window with appliquéd birds using rusted fabrics. The trees viewed through the windows are digitally printed photographs.

Safe Haven (detail)
SOLD

Remembering

This metre square quilt is a digital print on cotton poplin fabric. It was made from several of my pencil drawings in combination with photographic images of moths. 

Remembering (detail)
39ins x 39ins
Winner - Best in Show
Carrefour European du Patchwork
Alsace
Held in their Permanent Collection.