Textile Flora Telling Tales

Textile Flora growing from spoken words; tall Alliums from formal polite gardens and wild distorted bulbs from secretive, dark, untidy corners.

The Wild Wood and the rooky wood move darkly to surround a small, lost tale.

For this series, I have combined paper with my usual material of repurposed threads and fabric, adding a different texture and sharper edges to the textile forms.

Part of Telling Tales exhibition at The Byre Gallery, Millbrook, Cornwall from 14th August to 21st September 2014.

Light thickens; and the crow
Makes wing to the rooky wood:
Good things of day begin to droop and drowse;
While night’s black agents to their preys do rouse.
Macbeth Act 3 scene 2

Alliums, Textile Flora

Allium

Dark Bulbs

Lazy and Sulky, part of the Dark Bulbs series

L to R: The Rooky Wood, Winter Wild Wood, Wild Wood

Winter Wild Wood