Emotional Hoops is a series of ten pieces in varying sizes, each one exploring the world of crewel embroidery through the very different language of glass.
I've always been drawn to embroidery — to the rhythm of it, the patience, the way texture and colour build slowly into something rich and alive. These pieces began as an attempt to understand that through my own medium: to find in glass something of the same tactile pleasure, the same quiet intensity.
Stylised leaf and blossom wind around one another here in a rhythm that gives the piece its name — sinuous, reciprocal, each form answering the next.
The palette is rich blues and pinks, colours that sit at the very heart of the stained glass tradition, and they are used here with a freedom that feels genuinely playful. The mark-making is confident and varied — there is real pleasure in the surfaces, in the relationships between colours, in the way detail accumulates without ever becoming cluttered.
There is no obvious beginning or end, just the continuous movement of the forms turning through the glass within the circular frame — inviting you in, and then inviting you to stay a little longer.
Painted, enamelled and stained handmade flashed glass, polished and patinated steel hoop ready to hang. 40cm Diameter
Images: Dewi Tannatt Lloyd
Emotional Hoops is a series of ten pieces in varying sizes, each one exploring the world of crewel embroidery through the very different language of glass.
I've always been drawn to embroidery — to the rhythm of it, the patience, the way texture and colour build slowly into something rich and alive. These pieces began as an attempt to understand that through my own medium: to find in glass something of the same tactile pleasure, the same quiet intensity.
Stylised leaf and blossom wind around one another here in a rhythm that gives the piece its name — sinuous, reciprocal, each form answering the next.
The palette is rich blues and pinks, colours that sit at the very heart of the stained glass tradition, and they are used here with a freedom that feels genuinely playful. The mark-making is confident and varied — there is real pleasure in the surfaces, in the relationships between colours, in the way detail accumulates without ever becoming cluttered.
There is no obvious beginning or end, just the continuous movement of the forms turning through the glass within the circular frame — inviting you in, and then inviting you to stay a little longer.
Painted, enamelled and stained handmade flashed glass, polished and patinated steel hoop ready to hang. 40cm Diameter
Images: Dewi Tannatt Lloyd
