Something I share with my daughter...we both enjoy a good book. Hannah was an avid reader from a very early age. My efforts to get her to put down her book and go to sleep usually failed - she would read by torchlight under the duvet or by sitting on the bedroom window ledge with her book lit by the streetlamp outside! The above embroidered image 'A Good Book' started life as a very quick loose drawing on a prepared etching plate, early one morning when Hannah was visiting and I was going off to college...she was engrossed as usual in her reading and I couldn't resist trying to capture the moment.
The resulting etching I have returned to again and again as a starting point for other work. When a friend commissioned me to create an embroidered image for her, this little etching became the influence for a new drawing in which I tried to capture her enjoyment and passion for the story...it looks like at that moment she has just come across a really juicy bit which she just has to read out loud and share with me.
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