Very excited that my work made the cover of the Summer 2015 edition of Fiber Art Now magazine!
I was tickled pink to be featured in this great magazine and the article was written by no other than Mr X Stitch himself (Jamie Chalmers). Mr X Stitch features my work on his blog last year (you can see the post here) and it was quite an honour to have him write about my work for Fiber Art Now.
I have always been deeply fascinated by scientific specimen collections.
Wether they are pressed plants in a herbarium, lines of insects pinned to a board or creepy things in jars of formaldehyde, I find great beauty and fascination in preserved specimens and I have been known to spend hours perusing these collections in museums whenever I can. In my humble opinion, the power of a specimen collection is in the repetition. By having several examples of the same thing displayed in a clear simple manner, the similarities and differences can be clearly seen and a much deeper understanding can be developed than what you could glean from a single specimen alone.
I have always had a deep fascination with Ammonites. This fascinating group of extinct marine invertebrates have a beautiful spiralled shaped shell that resembles the curved spiral of a rams horn. Most fossil collectors would have a specimen or two of one of these horn shaped stones, I know I do.