The Seaweed Series

In 2016 on a trip to a beach in Fife I found a huge blade of sugar kelp still attached by its holdfast to a rock,  I produced this seaweed tapestry shortly after we returned.   As a compulsive reader of any subject I am interested in I soon realised that my knowledge of seaweeds was pitiful despite a childhood spent in rockpools.  I had long been obsessed by seaweed attached to rocks without ever considering why only some species did this this and could like most people name only one or two very common species.  For the last couple of years I have read, explored and painted producing tapestries ceramics and paintings celebrating this fascinating, diverse and ecologically vital life form.  I now scour the strandline on beaches and explore the intertidal zones on our coastlines - the following body of work is what has come so far from those expeditions.

Miniatures woven from watercolour studies of seaweed

Seaweed on Shell

From one of my watercolours, this tapestry was a real pleasure to weave.

Large panel depicting weeds in water
Woven on double warps at 5 and 10 warps/inch in cottons, silks and mohair.