I was brought up in rural Essex and the close observation of the natural world around me was part of both my formal education and my playtime. The seasons and the landscape play an intrinsic part in my mood and personality which naturally reflect themselves in my work. My traditional childhood included learning the hand craft skills of sewing and woodwork and later ceramics.

Consciously and unconsciously listening and absorbing with interest local folklore and the medicinal use of plants and the myths surrounding them. This became the starting point when I began researching a new project, understanding a plant throughout it's seasons, how it grows and reproduces, and what lives on, in or around it all help me to understand it when it comes to translating a plant into stitch, bringing some three dimensional elements into focus.

2001 March Ingatestone Library  G7T

2001 April  Shenfield Library G7T

2001 June Thaxted Guild Hall SMALLCHAT

2002 Spring Shenfield Library G7T

2002 Spring Brentwood St. Josephs  

2002 June Thaxted Guild Hall SMALLCHAT

2003 Spring Brentwood St. Josephs

2003 June Thaxted Guild Hall SMALLCHAT

2004 June Thaxted Guild Hall SMALLCHAT

2005 Spring Chelmsford Library

2005 June Thaxted Guild Hall SMALLCHAT

2005 July Dunmow Gallery

2006 June Thaxted Guild Hall SMALLCHAT

2006 Summer Cottenham

2007 June Thaxted Guild Hall SMALLCHAT

2007 Guild Regional Day Harlow SMALLCHAT

2008 June Thaxted Guild Hall SMALLCHAT

2008 Guild Regional Day Colchester SMALLCHAT

2008 August Wimpole Hall SMALLCHAT

2009 March Chelmsford Library

Contact Christina by emailing ann@asmalldesign.co.uk