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.
Where Hoping is still and tender, Curiosity bounces.
The foliage forms here are scaled up and full of energy — blues, reds, and pinks leaping against the semi-opalescent white ground with a liveliness that gives the piece its name. Notes of yellow catch the eye and keep it moving, one detail leading to the next, the composition refusing to settle.
It is the quality of a child noticing the world — that particular joy of finding that everything, looked at closely enough, turns out to be more interesting than expected. The foliate forms seem almost to lean forward, alert and eager, as though they too are in the middle of discovering something.
A piece that is very hard to walk past without smiling.
Painted, enamelled and stained handmade flashed glass, polished and patinated steel hoop ready to hang. 30cm 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.
Where Hoping is still and tender, Curiosity bounces.
The foliage forms here are scaled up and full of energy — blues, reds, and pinks leaping against the semi-opalescent white ground with a liveliness that gives the piece its name. Notes of yellow catch the eye and keep it moving, one detail leading to the next, the composition refusing to settle.
It is the quality of a child noticing the world — that particular joy of finding that everything, looked at closely enough, turns out to be more interesting than expected. The foliate forms seem almost to lean forward, alert and eager, as though they too are in the middle of discovering something.
A piece that is very hard to walk past without smiling.
Painted, enamelled and stained handmade flashed glass, polished and patinated steel hoop ready to hang. 30cm Diameter
Images: Dewi Tannatt Lloyd
