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.
Breath (2026) Embroidery on fabric. Cotton fabric, 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.
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, 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, plant dyes, ice. 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.
Mycelium (2023) Embroidery on fabric. Wool, linen, wooden frame. 40 x 60 cm.
Mycelium (2023) Stop motion animation created together with @bad.shapes.lab
Soft Current (2025) Embroidery on plant dyed fabric. Silk, wool, cotton, plant dyes, ice, bees wax. 25x36cm
A layered textile work where translucent fabric overlays an embroidered ground of thick wool. Horizontal lines of looping stitches trace a slow rhythm, binding the layers together.
What emerges recalls vegetation swaying below the surface, or land gently reshaped by a passing stream—lingering between movement and stillness.
Landscape with Fire (2023) Embroidery on plant-dyed fabric. Linen, wool, 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.
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
