Meredith Woolnough: Red Coral Fan

Embroidery thread and pins on paper.Freehand machine embrodiery on water soluble farbic – Meredith Woolnough’s elegant embroidered drawings capture the beauty and fragility of nature in knotted threads. Through the use of freehand machine embroidery and soluble materials, she is creating the natural world anew. Meredith’s embroideries map the frameworks of the various veining systems found in nature to create work that explores the balance, harmony and connectivity of life on Earth. hanging out at the end of a row to show they are handmade. The design for the ‘red coral Fan’ came from a dry coral fan specimen (species unknown) that was gifted to the artist. 20 x 20cm