Portland Bill Stole
This stole had a number of different elements to it, the first and most tricky being the brief !! I was asked if I could incorporate the Portland Bill lighthouse, the sea, a reference to Portland stone quarried in the…
This stole had a number of different elements to it, the first and most tricky being the brief !! I was asked if I could incorporate the Portland Bill lighthouse, the sea, a reference to Portland stone quarried in the…
Welcome to visitors old and new to my website. I wanted to make you aware my order book for 2021 Ordination stoles is already starting to fill up with enquiries. As I work completely by myself the number of commissions…
This is my most recent commission, for an ordination stole. I was asked to include the words ‘I will pour out my Spirit on all people’ and flames as a starting point for the design. My first designs had flames…
Over the last couple of months I’ve been working on my latest commission – the Celtic Tree of Life Stole. This commission came from Waterford in Ireland, so my first international client! I was asked to reflect the elements of…
I know it’s been a difficult few weeks for all of us, being apart from the ones we love is very hard and especially so at times of celebration like Easter. I had been thinking of a new project originally…
This is my most recent finished commission for the priest at St Alban the Martyr, London. I was asked to incorporate the stone mullions around the chancel window as viewed from the outside. On the nape of the neck the…
Earlier this year I was commissioned to produce a stole that was quite different with regards to the design. Unlike my previous work where most of the design work was completed by me then refined with the client, in this…
With all the cutting completed the stole based on Bishop Edward King Chapel was then to start piecing together. With this design I decided that the back neck piece would look better as a single piece of the white silk…
I’ve been busy carrying on with the White stole based on the Bishop Edward King Chapel ceiling and am really pleased with how it’s looking so far. Now that I had completed the outline stitches from the tracing, I started…
I have another commission i’ve started this month that came from a priest who had completed her training at Ripon College in Oxford. She asked if I could base it on the Bishop Edward King chapel at the college. Having visited…