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.

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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“If day be done, draw over me the veil of shades”. A line from the Bengali poet Rabindranath Tagore’s Gitanjali poems, as translated by Andre Gide in 1913.

210 × 220cm

Hand quilted linen, cotton, silk and viscose patchwork bound with silk and striped Khadi.

£6935

From a popular poem about evening by Alfred, Lord Tennyson, in the colours of Victorian décor and painting.

Exhibited in the first contemporary design intervention at David Parr House, Cambridge in 2023.

200 x 200cm

Hand quilted linen, cotton and silk patchwork bound with silk.

£6475

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

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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

To be quilted - POA

The visionary penultimate line of a treasured Victorian hymn.

250 x 200cm

Linen, cotton and silk patchwork

To be quilted - POA