Evensong is an evolving collection of typographic hand quilts bearing sacred and secular messages of comfort: the stillness and hush of evening in a blanket of slumber, repose, solace and protection until the break of day.
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Evensong I, 2020
A startling line from the Anglican Evensong service; the first in a collection of quilts bearing messages of comfort and protection through the night hours.
200 x 220cm
Hand quilted linen and cotton patchwork bound with striped Khadi cotton
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Now Folds the Lily, 2023
From a popular poem about evening by Alfred, Lord Tennyson, in the colours of Victorian décor and painting.
200 x 200cm
Hand quilted linen, cotton and silk patchwork bound with silk.
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Sweet Dreams, 2024
The benediction made famous by the voice of ‘Mama’ Cass Elliott in 1968, in California thrift shop colours against a field of denim and chambray.
210 x 210
Linen, cotton Khadi and wax print patchwork bound with Indian striped viscose
POA
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In Thy Arms
Henry Purcell’s Evening Hymn of 1689, asks, “to the soft bed my body I dispose, but where shall my soul repose?”
250 x 225cm
Linen and cotton patchwork
POA
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Heaven’s Morning
The visionary penultimate line of a treasured Victorian hymn.
250 x 200cm
Linen, cotton and silk patchwork
POA