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Anne writes for magazines and journals and is
represented on the UK Crafts Council Directory, is
a member of the UK Embroiderers Guild and the
Society for Embroidered Work.

Anne’s work can be seen online – she has been
participating in the ‘Artists Support Pledge’
intitiative, which supports other artists and her
local food bank. She is working towards a major
solo exhibition at the Ruthin Craft Centre in Wales
from March – July 2021 and is an invited artist at
‘Pour l’Amour du Fil’ in France next year.

I had a quilt that was disintegrating from my
Grandmother and decided to use it as the
based for a ‘Quarantine Quilt’. I had
variety of small pieces that were being used
as demonstration samples and set about
finishing them by hand and machine. I
added some pieces of embroidery from a
recent trip to India and some ribbon to
create a ‘tree of life’ motif through the centre
of the piece.

When I had assembled all the pieces
together, I spent several hours arranging and
rearranging before pinning and tacking the
elements into place. I hand stitched all of the
sections onto the background of the quilt
and then went around them on the
sewing machine to make them extra secure. The
finished quilt was backed with a vintage ‘folk’
patterned fabric from France.

The piece is now hanging in my office and hopefully
will make it to an exhibition in France next year.

Anne is an award winning textile artist, author and
tutor. She trained in Canada and the UK and was the
recipient of two successive Elizabeth Greenshields
Foundation awards. She exhibits and tutors in her
adopted country of the UK and worldwide. Her
project work is informed and influenced with
narratives exploring the natural world, folk traditions
and more recently migration and travel. She is the
author of four books for Batsford, the most recent to
be published in October 2020, ‘Textile Travels’.