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Mainly blue seascape with distant headland and wide area of pattern on the wet sandy beach.

“Norfolk Beach.”
Batik cotton wallhanging stretched onto a wooden frame.
113×77cm

Bare dark trees leaning diagonally across a seascape against a dramatic blue sky with sweeping clouds.

“Erosion, Suffolk Coast.”
Batik cotton wallhanging.
(Sold, but limited edition giclée prints available, size A3)

A wide area of green vegetation and highly textured path in the foreground curving into the distance on a cliff top with sea on the left and a distant church tower on the right.

“Coastal Path”
Batik cotton wallhanging.
(Sold, but limited edition giclée prints available, size A3)

Ripples on the surface of the blue lake on the right and curving textures in the ochre sand on the left. The “S” shape of the division between the two areas providing perspective, with a distant sliver of sea on the horizon beyond the sand.

“Between Sea and Lake, Benacre”
Batik cotton wallhanging (Sold).

A seascape looking across a rocky cove towards an ochre coloured hill with a gully in heavy shadow down to slate grey rocks. More chunky rocks in the foreground on the left with foaming waves and texture of sea surrounding them.

“Cwm Tydu, Cardigan Bay”
Batik cotton wallhanging (Sold).

A mainly blue seascape with the horizon close to the top of the picture making a narrow stripe of blue sky. A varied series of waves making highly textured stripes right across the picture, but in the foreground there are interlocking shapes of rippled water, wet ochre sand, slate grey mud and patterned grooves in the sand.

“Sea and Sand”
Batik cotton wallhanging (Sold).

Blue snow with indentations of wheel tracks and rough ground causing shadows across the snow. Bare dark trees on the horizon against a warm glow of sky.

“Snow Field”
Batik cotton wallhanging (Sold).

A wide horizontal landscape with lime green grasses, a sliver of purple brown cultivated field on the right and curly white clouds in a blue sky.

“Fenland in Early Summer”
Batik cotton wallhanging (Sold).

A batik picture: Welsh landscape in pinkish brown and green.

“Preseli Fields.”
Batik cotton wallhanging,
Stretched onto wooden frame. 97×66cm.

A batik picture: perspective stripes across a field in bright colours.

“Set Aside.”
Wax resisted dyes on silk 64×47cm
Framed with glass 87×70cm

A batik picture: a combine harvester surrounded by patterns of corn growing in rows and stubble. It's stitched and batiked.

“Combine Harvester.”
Cotton batik collage with machine embroidery,
Stretched onto wooden frame,
100×108cm.

A batik picture: a closer-up version of the above picture.

Detail, “Combine Harvester.”

A batik picture: using Paul Klee's format, Suffolk landscape in collaged batik.

“Suffolk Highway and Byways, after Paul Klee.”
Batik cotton collage wallhanging with battens.
97×63cm.

A batik picture: closer-up version of the above picture, showing trees and fields.

Detail, “Suffolk Highway and Byways, after Paul Klee.”

A batik picture: closer-up version of the above picture, showing trees and fields.

“Sunlit Window Sill”
Batik cotton wallhanging onto a wooden frame
80×60cm

A batik picture: a vase of poppy seed heads and other objects casting distorted shadows on wall behind.

“Still Life In Sunlight.”
Batik cotton wallhanging
Stretched onto wooden frame
74×108cm

A batik picture: closer-up version of the above picture, showing trees and fields.

“Still Life, Forsythia in Sunlight”
Batik cotton wallhanging (Sold).

The whole picture contains a spiral based on Fibonacci’s mathematical series. Part of the spiral on the left, is a red line superimposed onto an image of a sunflower seed head. To the right, is a vase of sunflowers.

“Fibonacci Sunflowers”
Batik cotton wallhanging (Sold).

I have nick-named this scarf my Howard Hodgkin scarf because it is in the style of his painting. Bands of dashes and dots in greenish-grey and purple , graduating through pink and orange.

Batik silk scarf.
(Sold).

Pattern of shapes and lines in graduated pinks and greys suggesting waves in the sea.

Batik silk scarf.
(Sold).

Page last updated: 2nd March 2008