A series of work exploring fine line between Fine Art and Textiles, combining them to create a growing embroidered garden. The theme I created for myself was Home. Flowers and nature have always been a continuous interest for me, and over the years I have worked with photographs taken in my parents' garden; however, as it has developed it has become a place I enjoy, feel protected and safe from everything. 

 

For the Mini Exhibition I made a small experimental garden. Although being smaller than I intended, the images flowed on from each other well and it looked like it could be a small patch of a garden. Initially I didn’t want any of the same images touching each other. After consideration and further research into gardens and garden design, looking at gardeners themselves and their layouts, It soon became clear that when planting a plant or flower and letting it grow free that there are many flowers and shoots coming out 

clustered together, next to another plant which also has a cluster of flowers and so it continues.

 

To improve how I should layout my plants better, I looked at gardeners such as Gertrude Jekyll, Montagu Don, Alan Titchmarsh and Chris Beardshaw. Another artist I looked at was Keith Arnatt. This allowed me to focus my knowledge and research the different heights of plants, forming my next piece starting at the top with the taller plants, such as Hollyhock and Foxglove, which both range from between 4-7 ft. when fully grown. The final piece all together I feel works a lot better than before. The height of the piece was a big factor in my work, allowing it to overshadow and protect. The composition has  in this piece the combination of sewn and painted pieces as well as plain pieces to allow the details to be visible, and canvas to show flowers poking out from the background. I have tied all the images together using acrylic paint, green to resemble the rest of the foliage spreading between the plants and working up to blue to resemble the sky shining through the top plants.