Embroidered Pictures

Recently Marie has been learning how to use a sewing machine to produce freestyle machine embroidery and discovered tha these machines can be very challenging to use and there is a lot to learn. The objective is to add free style embroidery to acrylic and watercolour paintings or to felted pictures.

In 2025 Marie joined Derby Embroidery Group and has participated in several textile projects and workshops. She made a quilted dog fern, a textile of a cat winding round the owners legs for the Belonging Air Arts project and also a sashiko and blackwotk hybrid dragon for the 2025 Chairman's Challenge. She also took part in the Textile Artist Faces challenge and made three portraits.

in 2026 Marie provided two squares for the Melbourne Quilt project: sailing and ploughing.She also made a piece for the Air Arts Hospital project, Home, Health and Home with textile fireside cat scene.

Felted Wool Pictures

Marie enjoys transforming topics from her sketches, watercolours and photographs into wet and needle felted wool pictures after a one day workshop in 2019. Pictures are built up using layers of merino wool, and sometimes wool from rare breeds. Other textiles such as bamboo tops and silk can also incorporated into these pictures.

Marie was greatly encouraged and delighted that her Autumn Badger picture was awarded a Highly Commended at the 2018 Ashby Art Festival. Also her Wensleydale Longwool Sheep portrait won the people's Prize at the 2019 Ashby Art Festival Exhibition and was selected for exhibition in the Sock Gallery 2019 Summer Exhibition, Loughborough.