Fashion Illustration

All this Slow Stitching has reminded me of my love of threads. Here’s one of my free machine embroidered fashion illustrations from the archives.

A History of Royal Fashion

I've signed up this week to start this online learning course about the History of Royal Fashion with Future Learn 


As many of you know many moons ago I studied Theatre Design and have always loved costumes, so I couldn't resist giving this course a go.


I am really excited that it is taught by lecturers from Glasgow University, as I've always wanted to study with them.



It Starts in May and hopefully I'll be able to fit my artwork round it. There is an outline of the course below incase any of you are interested in giving it a go, it's free and can be accessed anywhere in the world.

Where I See Fashion

With it being the start of London Fashion Week and then next weekend the Oscars, red carpet dresses will be the talk of the town, my thoughts turn to costumes and fashion, so I thought it timely that I share one of my favourite blogs with you.

WISF is a blog curated by Bianca Luini about fashion and everything that inspires it such as art, design, nature and more. It’s a collection of pictures related to each other for different reasons, for instance colours, shapes, sensations, concept.

Here are some of my personal favourite matches:

Christian Dior Haute Couture Fall 2007 | 
Portrait of Betty Wertheimer by Giovanni Boldini, 1902

Details at Julien Macdonald Spring 2015
| Maldives #12 (detail) by Zaria Forman, soft pastel on paper, 2014

Backstage at Francesco Scognamiglio Spring 2016 |

Portrait of a girl amongst blossoms (detail) by George Hillyard Swinstead

Shoes at Dior Fall 2015 | Artwork by Aerosyn-Lex Mestrovic

Chanel Haute Couture Spring 2016 |
 A Pathway in Monet’s Garden, Giverny by Claude Monet, 1902

Details at Atelier Versace Fall 2016 | 
Genevieve’s Wave (detail) by Matthew Cusick, 2014, inlaid maps on panel

Details at Elie Saab Haute Couture Spring 2015 
| The Water-Lily Pond by Claude Monet, 1899

Picture by Clive Arrowsmith, 1970 | Tall Bearded Iris (Iris Let It Rain)