A Grimsby Girl’s World Tour series has included imagined journeys to Bogota, Colombia, Tokyo, Japan, outer space, Copenhagen, Denmark, Madrid, Spain, Brooklyn, NYC, USA, & Vancouver, Canada.
The Grimsby Girl is the artist’s Mum, Muriel May Stone who was born in an era when women had no right to vote. She had no chance to travel abroad in her lifetime and very few opportunities in life to pursue her artistic and musical interests. Muriel loved singing and was a talented contralto. She left school aged 13 and was apprenticed to a tailor. It was a hard life with no recognition of her talents as a seamstress. Here she visits Hampton Court Palace in England. On the right you can see the paper collage from which I made the composition.
Below illustration work – Drawings made on an iPad in the paper pro App.
Left: Outside the Pub – mixed media hand/machine stitch with acrylic paint
Right: 3 Girls and a Fence – a portrait of 3 girls mixed media hand/machine stitch with acrylic paint.
Girl and Boy with Fish – a nod to the artist’s Grimsby heritage.
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When I see these images I wish I could touch them so I could tell where the stitches were and were the paint is. A bit like going up really close to a Monet painting to get a sense of how they were made (not really) but the texture intrigues me.
Thanks for your interest in my work. All the textural bits are stitch and the smoother areas are paint.Sometimes I paint over the stitches and sometimes I stitch over the painted areas.
Lovely work and great to see the process, especially the collage piece.
Thank you for your kind words.