Fleur Webb is a mixed media hand embroidery artist from the New Forest. She has dedicated her practice to exploring the interplay between beauty, femininity, and vulgarity.
With a profound interest in contemporary and controversial themes, she employs gold work, raised work, and tambour hand embroidery techniques to bring these contrasts to life.
Fleur has drawn inspiration from the deep sea, a realm of profound depth and layered complexity, much like hand embroidery. The Midnight Zone, spanning 1,000 to 4,000 meters below the surface, houses creatures that have adapted to its harsh conditions. With no sunlight penetrating, this oceanic layer lies in pitch darkness meaning our creatures of the deep have evolved to create their own light, their own bioluminescence.
With the decadence of goldwork and tambour techniques and the structure raised work embroidery provides, Fleur investigates the beauty, fear and unknown of the deep-sea in a way science cannot, through imaginative, contemporary hand embroidery. Thalassophobia is the fear of deep water.
