This is not the first time I have stitched into a record and wanted to know if I could created an legible portrait. The thread is stitched through the vinyl.

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Marc Bolan cross stitch 78 vinyl record. Portrait has been stitched through the vinyl record with embroidery skein's.

1950's leather skates, painted in the Willow pattern design to mimic a Willow pattern plate.

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I had some old film cells from a slide set that the Uni was throwing away. The film cells were stuck to a sheet of Perspex and using acrylic paint, I applied the portrait over the Perspex using paper kitchen towel and cotton buds. When held to the light you can see the film cells through the portrait.

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This project was part of my FMP for my B.A. in Art and design where I took various found items and repurposed them. This is Bic biro pens and drawn onto little black dress tissue patterns.

Tea Bag Parasol, used tea bags, parasol and water colours.

Wishing I was home was created from a 1939 gas mask and has been embroidered with cotton through the mask. The concept of this piece are the views of a man at war and a wife waiting at home. He is in the trenches and wishing on dandelions to go home, while is wife is embroidering the dandelions wishing her husband would come home. This is represented by the dandelion on the mask, hessian head for sandbags at the trenches and a copy of the book called All's quite on the Western Front.

2020 Lacuna Festival, The Lost Festivals, Online
exhibition, Lanzarote, Spain.

Wishing I was home was created from a 1939 gas mask and has been embroidered with cotton through the mask. The concept of this piece are the views of a man at war and a wife waiting at home. He is in the trenches and wishing on dandelions to go home, while is wife is embroidering the dandelions wishing her husband would come home. This is represented by the dandelion on the mask, hessian head for sandbags and a copy of All's quite on the Western Front.

Ozzy Osbourne portrait in Biro pens and Posca paint pens. Using vintage paper record sleeves to draw the portrait on. 21 x 21 cm

12 inch 78 Vinyl record, cross stitched with a rose wreath. This was this first full attempt to cross stitch through a 12 inch vinyl record

Not every project works the way you want it to and this is a perfect example. Even though this didn't work I still used it in my FMP Art Degree. The visor has been cross stitched through with what was a skull pattern but all I could see was a panda.

This was a part of the Remake brief when I first stated college and decided to use old watch parts. I hated this project with a passion and wanted to bin it. My tutor would not let me and made me complete it. I kept it for a couple of years and eventually entered it into a Ripley's Believe it or Not Ripcycle art competition. I came 4th and won $500 and now Ripley's now own this piece. Ever since I have finished every piece I have started, you never know where it will lead you.

Also part of the FMP Degree I decided to try and embroider a X-Ray, not as hard a you think but I found the x-ray began to vanish from the film. The embroidery is a uterus made from flowers.

This project was completed as part of collage course work. The tattoo took over 60 hours to stitch through the plastic torso.