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background of a piece I created after visit- husband’s poetry.
ing the crows at Stonehenge. The recent pandemic and ‘lockdown’ have
My photographs are an essential forced many creatives to look at their work
ingredient of my work – I literally have and adapt it to their audience. Exhibitions
hundreds of Stonehenge and Avebury have moved on-line and internet shops
alone. I seldom work from just one but will provide necessary platforms for artists to
combine them to create a piece – in the continue selling, but it’s hard and when it
end it’s the atmosphere and mood of a comes to textiles because you really need
landscape I’m trying to capture not a to see the individual stitches and textures
perfect representation. I made a special up close to appreciate what makes each
artwork for a couple who love Salisbury piece so tactile and unique.
Plain in Wiltshire – they take photos all I have continued to work through
year round and I created a composite ‘lockdown’, not making large pieces
landscape using their pictures and the destined for a gallery, but tiny new ones in
