Drear Diary and other cheery tales 2015, was an exhibition of embroidery pieces based on journal entries. Embroidery has been a medium I’ve loved working with since childhood. I like to use it as an alternative form of sketching. Aesthetically it can also work well with paints/inks. Following on from my previous embroidery projects, (We Are the Spaces That I Am), I wanted to continue using the medium to create seemingly mundane scenes. At the time I was an avid journaler. Every so often the journal entries and sketches worked well together, these pages became the basis of this series of artworks.
J C Swindells 