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.
Tenacity takes familiar embroidery forms and scales them up, letting the shapes breathe and assert themselves. The glass is handmade red flashed glass — a material with real depth and warmth — worked with sandblasting, glass paint, pink enamel, and yellow stain. The circular frame feels natural here, containing the composition the way an embroidery hoop contains its stitching: a boundary that focuses rather than confines.
It's a piece that rewards time. The detail unfolds gradually — colour shifting with the light, surfaces revealing their texture slowly, the way a piece of hand-stitched work does when you finally hold it close.
Painted, enamelled and stained handmade flashed glass, polished and patinated steel hoop ready to hang. 20cm 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.
Tenacity takes familiar embroidery forms and scales them up, letting the shapes breathe and assert themselves. The glass is handmade red flashed glass — a material with real depth and warmth — worked with sandblasting, glass paint, pink enamel, and yellow stain. The circular frame feels natural here, containing the composition the way an embroidery hoop contains its stitching: a boundary that focuses rather than confines.
It's a piece that rewards time. The detail unfolds gradually — colour shifting with the light, surfaces revealing their texture slowly, the way a piece of hand-stitched work does when you finally hold it close.
Painted, enamelled and stained handmade flashed glass, polished and patinated steel hoop ready to hang. 20cm Diameter.
Images: Dewi Tannatt Lloyd
