Hand Embroideries Black and White

I have been working with the pure drawing qualities: line, tone, texture, shape of the black cotton embroidery floss on raw canvas. The material quality could be described as very matte, no shine at all so the whole impact is on these drawing qualities as descriptors and as the expression.

The Black and White embroideries include the Meditation Portraits, work for a Surface Design association exhibition called Edge of the Forest, a set of embroideries based on my dad as well as others.

In the Meditation Portraits I am interested in working up pen sketches done in the dark into large scale hand embroideries. The backgrounds are fully embroidered for complex texture. The black embroidery thread line moves as easily as ink on paper. It is a sensational experience.

In the DAD images I am interested in using the black thread line as it describes image and type in a very spontaneous spatially descriptive way; meaning as it adds depth and texture.

Edge of the Forest derives from the DAD work.