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I combine with a passion for colour, layers These skies, like the moon, trees, hares
of fabric and a few simple hand stitches. and crows have become something of a
Over the past few years I have developed signature for me and in fact have featured
a more mixed media approach. I love in all three of my solo exhibitions and
a landscape but found that I was never many commissions.
happy with the depth or movement in my Poetry too plays an important part in my
skies when using simply fabrics, so I slowly work – in fact each of the pieces in my
began to use acrylic paint on fabric to give second show had poetry, prose and even

me the dramatic, big skies that I the odd song lyric alongside it in the
needed, especially for my work about gallery. It was fascinating to watch
Suffolk. I love the depth of colour and visitors engaging with both and led to
vibrancy that acrylics give, especially on many animated conversations. I find the
night and stormy skies - Prussian Blue and poetry of John Clare so inspiring and his
Payne Grey are my favourites. Sonnet ‘The Crow’ features in the painted