TEXTILE ART WITH PLANT-BASED DYES AND EMBROIDERY
Working with plant-based dyes, natural fabrics and embroidery, this practice explores ecology, care and the interdependence between human and more-than-human life. The work is process-led and slow, focusing on tactility, materiality, and connections across landscapes, organisms and forms of collective making.
Contact Zone (2026) Hand-dyed, folded and hand-stitched. Linen, silk thread, beeswax. 34 × 44 cm
This sculptural textile work is made with plant-dyed linen, coloured with woad and treated with beeswax. The form unfolds as a soft field of folds, where subtle tensions and stitched lines suggest a point of encounter between forces. It explores how structure can emerge through interaction, pressure, and material response.
From Within (2026) Hand-dyed, folded and hand-stitched. Wool (étamine), wool yarn, beeswax. 30 x 40 cm
This sculptural textile work is made with plant-dyed wool, coloured with madder and treated with beeswax, creating subtle tonal variation and a tactile surface. The form develops through folding and stitching, allowing structure to emerge from within the material. It reflects an interest in growth, transformation, and the relationship between structure and softness.
Soft Spiral (2026) Hand-dyed, folded and hand-stitched. Wool (étamine), silk thread, beeswax. 19.5 x 19.5 x 6 cm
This sculptural textile work is plant-dyed with weld using an ice-dyeing process, creating soft variations in yellow and olive tones. The form emerges through a spiral movement in the fabric, generating a gentle tension that lifts the structure. It explores fragility as a balance between softness, movement, and form.
Undercurrent (2025) Embroidery on plant dyed fabric. Wool (étamine), cotton, silk thread, plant dyes, beeswax. 25x36cm
A layered textile work in which a translucent, beeswaxed fabric rests over a darker, organic embroidered ground. Through slow, rhythmic stitching, forms begin to surface—suggesting movement beneath, as if something is emerging through the layers. The work holds a moment between concealment and appearance, where structure is still in the process of becoming.
Underworld (2025) Embroidery on handmade cattail paper. Cattail, silk. 35 x 25cm / 42 x 33cm
Underworld evokes the myth of Persephone, whose descent into darkness and return to light mirror earth’s cycles of decay and renewal. Beneath the surface, roots, fungi and microorganisms weave hidden networks that sustain life above. The work reflects on this fragile balance: an underworld where decomposition becomes regeneration, myth intertwines with ecology and unseen forces uphold the continuity of living systems.
Woad -triptych (2024) Ecoprint, monoprint, embroidery on fabric. Linen, wool thread, woad, marigolds, textile paint, metal wire. Approx. 180 x 180cm
Woad is a series of three works created in collaboration between the artist and the plant - dyer's woad (Isatis Tinctoria). The trace left by a plant contains an element of randomness and the unknown, which is comparable to the work of nature. This challenges the artist to enter into a dialogue with the plant, trying to bring out the meanings and beauty hidden within it and to deepen her own artistic expression.
Rebirth (2024) Embroidery on ice-dyed fabric. Silk, wool thread, plant dyes. 86x24cm
Rebirth is a memory of a winter walk through a forest veiled in fog - a world suspended between stillness and motion. Beneath the surface, matter decays, melts and regenerates in a continuous rhythm of transformation. The work was created through an experiment with ice-dyeing, a process in which melting ice allows plant-based dyes to flow slowly through silk and wool fibers. The resulting patterns are traces of this natural process - a record of impermanence and renewal.​
Breath (2026) Embroidery on fabric. Cotton, embroidery thread. 20 x 18 cm
A reflection on breath as something we all share. On empathy as closeness without intrusion - listening, staying, and leaving space for another presence.
Landscape with Fire (2023) Embroidery on plant-dyed fabric. Linen, wool yarn, plant dyes. 58 x 68 cm
After fire: a space between destruction and renewal. Layered fabrics and stitched forms hold absence and presence - where barren ground meets the possibility of regrowth.
Mycelium (2023) Embroidery on fabric. Linen, wool thread, wooden frame. 40 x 60 cm.
Mycelium (2023) Stop motion animation created together with @bad.shapes.lab
Study of a Flower (2023) Embroidery on fabric. Cotton, linen. 66 x 74 cm
Imprints (2023) Screen print on linen. Linen thread, plant dyed cotton, ink. 45 x 45 cm
