A  few weeks ago I posted  group of small landscape works from 2000,  mounted on woven newspaper mats which seemed like a good idea at the time.   A while back I dug them out to give me something of  a starting point in a small pieced works direction to which I feel increasingly drawn.

These fit a 20cm x 20cm art stretcher. 

I love pieced work, where areas of different coloured and textured fabrics are joined by stitch to form a new fabric surface pattern.  Call it patchwork if you will, which it technically is;  however I think to most people the term ‘patchwork’  has connotations of templates,  traditional patterns and precise geometric shapes.  The ultra fine lines in pieced work  by Margery Goodall several years ago alerted me to technical potential that I had not explored in my own work (and since developed in my Ebb & Flow series)  Recent improvisational pieced works of Lisa Call and Erin Wilson have reminded me of the potential of ‘lines’.