The situation in Gaza and the West Bank is beyond words can describle. The image is densely layered with stitch to add form and dimension. It shows the ruins, destruction, grief and desperation for food and shelter.

Title: Destruction,Displacement,Despair

Medium: Textiles

Dimensions: 30"Hx40"Wx0.5"D

Year: 2023

An image of the genocide in Gaza showing the despair of one of the citizens. The work is densely layered with stitch using the sewing machine,printing etc. The work also shows the rush for food,water etc. including the total destruction of the place.

Title: Destruction,Displacement,Despair-detail

Medium: Textiles

Dimensions: 24"Hx30"Wx0.5"D

Year: 2023

This large Installation titled Cape Town is comprised of 92 panels each depicting six sections of the city and its surroundings. The work shows the Townships, Communities, Resources as well as its history of slavery and apartheid. Each section is separated with a strip which is stitched to show each section. The work is digitally photographed, printed and hand and. machine stitched. 

Dimensions: 6ftHx16ftWx0.1"D

Year: 2020-2022

This Section relates to the Slavery, Apartheid regime of S.A. The images illustrate the many demonstrations, prison cell where Nelson Mandela was imprisoned for 27 years. The work is digitally photographed, printed and manipulated with stitch, text, created by hand and machine embroidery. Each Section depicts various parts of this interesting City.

This image of a dress like form illustrates a form of protection i.e.the walls that surrounds the many homes and towns in Cape Town.

The textile form is layered and sectioned to show various parts of the city and neighbourhoods i.e. townships and the Malay neighbourhood which is culturally rich and diverse. Text used is stitched and the images are embroidered on fabric and printed.

Dimensions: 48"Hx30"Wx2"D

Textiles,wood,thread

2020

The Malay Couple are shown in this work.  This is an interesting and cultural part of the city of Cape Town with its rich diversity i.e. mosques, temples, good food etc. The walls are created in on fabric folded, creased and pleated. Embroidery using both the manual and digital sewing computer is used.

During the last few years several monuments relating to the Civil War in the USA were removed. One of these was boxed waiting to be removed at the Montgomery County Offices in Rockville,MD. This work relates to this statue which has since been removed to Harper's Ferry in Maryland. The work is mixed media re: glass, fabric, and thread. 

Dimensions: 15"Hx12"Wx6"D

Medium: Glass,Textiles,Text.

Year: 2018

A residency in Rockville was the outcome of several works relating to its history of slavery in the early 1800s. The ads for slaves and the removal of the Confederate Monument that was boxed waiting to be removed from the Montgomery Council Office as a result of the many demonstrations around the country. The work is a folding piece that shows text, images of the slave owner's doll and various ads by the slave captors.

The work is textiles using hand and machine embroidery on linen.

Dimensions: 1ftHx6ftWx0.5"D

Textiles,Stitch

2018

The research was interesting as the artist was not familiar with its history and led to finding information in The Sentinel which was the local newspaper that circulated in Montgomery/DC area during the 1800s. The work is textile based using stitch,fabric  and print to illustrate its history.

The African American History of Rockville,MD. in the 1860s. An image of the young girl,Anne Maria Weems escaped to Canada in disguise. The text is a collaboration with a poet. 

Title: Anne Maria Weems Banner

Medium: Textiles,stitch,text

Dimensions: 6ftHx24"Wx0.1"D

Year: 2018

The Large Installation consists of 22 panels each showing the various parts of the city. The work is created on handmade felt using stitch and collage.Some of the images are created digitally on the sewing computer. The images show the contrasts of the neighbourhoods i.e. the rich and the poor areas.

Title: OH Baltimore

Medium: Textiles

DImensions: 6ftHx10ftWx0.1"D

Year: 2025

The wealthy house was found in the Roland Park area of Baltimore. The work is created on handmade felt and richly layered with hand and machine embroidery. Size 12"Hx15"Wx0.5"D

Baltimore has several abandoned buildings and most of them are inhabitable. The image here is photographed, printed and stitched with hand and machine embroidery to add form and dimension. The surface is handmade felt and paper. 

Title: Abandoned Buildings,Baltimore.

Medium: Textiles,Paper

Dimensions: 15"Hx12"Wx0.5"D

Year: 2016

A detail of the row houses in Baltimore. The work is created on handmade paper using print ,stitch and handmade felt.

A residency in France was the inspiration for the large work. The daily walk of 45 mins to Nogent,France among the landscape and narrow path.The artwork is placed at the site. A richly layered stitched work incorporating paint,stitch, collage.

Title: The Walk to Nogent,France

Medium: Sitch,Paint, Collage

Dimensions: 35ftHx1ftWx0.5"D

Year:2006

A detail of the large installation  -The Walk to Nogent,France. The detail shows the hand and machine stitches incorporated with paint,pencil and some of the items found in the landscape which is stitched in the worki.e. pebbles,small stones etc.

The Installation is textile based using photography and richly layered with stitch using hand and the manual sewing machine. The images show the rich cultural diversity of E. London where the artist lived for several years. Images show a mosque, hindu temple, Sikh marriage the shops etc. Each panel describes various aspects of the city. Included too is the Pearly King and Queen of London. This tradition originated in the early 19th Century and the ceremony involves the beautiful attire of buttons, beads, sequins stitched on the costumes. This is to keep the evil out and the goodness in.

The image shows the Pearly Queen with a Sikh participant. This is now a multi cultural ceremony than what was practiced in the early 1800s. The costumes are richly decked with beads, buttons and sequins. The Pearlies as they are called raise money for Charity and is a landmark of London. The work measures 6"Hx4"Wx0.1"D.

Title: E.London detail

Medium: Textiles,Print,Stitch

Dimensions" 6"Hx4"Wx0.1"D

Year: 2008

This part of London (Thames Barrier) has been redeveloped and parts of the landscape is planned ie (Landscape Architecture)

The fauna that depicts this work relates to the landscape around this part of London. The landscape is planned architecture and the flowers, plants  is well structured and colourful. The image shows the flowers, greenery created with handmade felt using hand and machine embroidery to add form and structure. Size 3ftHx5ftWx3"D

Title: Undulating Thames Barrier,London

Medium: Textiles

Dimensions: 3ftHx5ftWx3"D

Year: 2008

The colourful fauna is captured on handmade felt using hand dyes, hand and machine stitches. The work is a relief in that it is 3D. Size 36"Hx60"Wx3"D

This large work is created on handmade felt and took a year to complete. The images of the victims are richly layered with stitch created digitally and on the manual sewing machine. The history of the country including the death of Emmet Till is shown and several other victims during the 1960s. 

Dimensions:10ftHx12ftWx0.5"D

Year : 2020-2022

The killing of George Floyd in 2020 created several demonstrations around the World. The work is created on handmade felt and richly layered with stitch. The stitched text  shows the many countries in the world where the demonstrations were held.

A detail of the 14 year old Emmett Till who was abducted and lynched in Mississippi in 1955 after being accused of offending a white woman.

The work is richly layered with stitch and printed on cloth/handmade felt surface.

The Circle in context represents a spiritual journey. The work shows the victims of 2 schools -Sandy Hook Elementary in Newtown,CT and Uvlade,Texas -Robb Elementary School. The images are created in textiles using stitch, paint, metal, and thread.

Dimensions: 36" in Diameterx1"D

The image of this work represents the Mandala (Sacred Space) The Gun is created on wood incorporating stitch and the laser cutter.

Dimensions: 36" Diameter. 40"Hx36"Wx1"D

The killings at Sandy Hook Elementary School was devastating and sad. This image is entirely stitched and is a detail of the entire circular work.

Dimensions: 5 1/2"Hx4 1/2"Wx0.1"D

Textiles.

2024

This work addresses the plight of wars around the world and the people with power who destroy a city with no regrets.The work is densely created entirely with stitch to show density of surface. The images show destruction and the entire collapse of a place.

Title: Destruction,Displacement,Despair 2023/2024

         Textiles/Stitch

         24"Hx38"Wx1"D

          2023/2024

This detail shows the food truck completely destroyed including the rubble and the chaos in Gaza. The work is entirely covered with stitches and has form and dimension.

.Anne Maria Weems was a young girl (15 years) who escaped her captors in the mid 1800s. She disguised as a man and went to Canada. The African American History in Rockville,MD.  The book is 12"Hx15"Wx0.5"D.

Medium: Textiles,Paper and Text

Year: 2018

The back of the book cover shows the advertisement for this young girl by the slave owners when she escaped her captors.

The text is embroidered on a handmade paper surface.

Year 2018

With so many migrants lost on the high seas especially in the English Channel this 3D work is created with textiles, leather and wood.

Hand and machine stitch is used to create the folds and is on a wooden base.

Title: The Shipwreck

Medium: Textiles,wood,leather,thread

Dimensions: 15"Hx20"Wx6"D

Year: 2019

View 2 of this work entitled The Shipwrech which alludes to the migration of people across the seas.

A detail of the Shipwrech showing the sails which is created with folds of cloth stitched to add form and dimension

The image relates to migration which is a very current topic these days around the globe. The work is textile based and 3D .

Tile: Migration

Medium: Textiles

Dimensions: 15"Hx24"Wx4"D

Year: 2020

Migration View 2 is created with folds using stitch to add form and dimension

The detail shows the contrasts of materials -the delicate and the harsh re: withstanding the climate when travelling and landing to the destination

The UK has many crossings of migrants via the Tunnel.. This scultpure shows the migrants crossing the Channel/Tunnel.

The work is created with velvet and linen fabric using folds, stitch etc  on a wooden base.

Title: Tunnel Crossing

Medium: Textiles, Wood,Thread

Dimensions: 2ftHx30:Wx6"D

Year: 2021

Migrants acroos the continent escape through the English Channel and Tunnel. This image which is created in textiles shows the back view of the tunnel.

A detail of the tunnel created  in a velvet fabric which is stitched to create form and dimension

This image gives some dignity to the young lady who escaped to Canada during the 1800s. The back of the woman is created in luscious fabric on a copper gauze and hangs on a 

twigs , branches relating to the woods. The history of the African American community who lived in Rockville,MD and alludes to Anne Maria Weems.

Title: In Transit

Medium: Textiles,Twigs

Dimensions: 28"Hx30"Wx6"D

Year: 2020

Girls are young as 10 years are forced by their parents to marry and this has been a practice around the Globe.

Th practice of child brides in marriages is found in various parts of the world i.e. India, parts of Africa etc. This detail is created with stitches and a print of a young bride of 12 years of age.

The work shows Young Brides from various  parts of the world. The image is created on handmade paper , stitch and textiles.

Title: Child Brides 2025

Medium: Handmade paper, textiles,stitch,collage

Dimensions: 15"Hx12"Wx0.5"D

Year 2025

During and before World War II the Japanese soldiers sexually abused women re: Korea, China including Taiwan and Indonesia were also involved.

This work relates to the brutal history. It was only recently that the Japanese Government apologized for this outrage.

Title : Comfort Woman

Medium: Textiles,Eood

Dimensions: 48"Hx36"Wx2"D

Year: 2022

In some parts of the world women are not allowed to show their face but only the eyes. This image of a young woman who lived in E.London where there is a large community of people from the sub continent. The image is. photographed and the veil is densely layered with stitch to give a lacelike quality to the work.

Title: Exclusion

Medium: Textiles,Embroidery,Print

Dimensions: 3ftHx3ftWx3"D

Year: 2009

Advertisements were often used for marriage purposes . This image is created on silk fabric using hand and. machine embroidery.

Title: Dowry Bride

Medium: Textiles/Embroidery

Dimension: 36"Hx24"Wx0.5"D

Year: 2002

Red is they symbol of marriage, fire, suicide in this work which alludes to the brides some of whom set themselves on fire instead of the marriage forced upon them by families.  The tunnel like shape is created with folds of fabric and stitch to add form and dimension.

Title: Tunnel of Fire

Medium: Textiles/wood,thread

Dimensions:  18:Hx7ftWx8"D

Year: 2002

Red was often used as the colour -re: Marriage. This work shows the interior of the tunnel which is fabric/textiles.

The work relates to the bondage in the 1800s re: the young slave girl,Anne Maria Weems who lived in Maryland. The work is created with linen fabric using chains as bondage.

Title: Unchained Yet Not Free

Medium: Textiles,Collage

Dimensions: 18"Hx15"Wx9"D

Year: 2019

The detail shows the fine lines (stitches) on a linen background incorporating the chains of bondage.