Lynda uses both hand and machine embroidery techniques; her creative process “just a matter of following the thread”.
Holding a BA Hons in Creative Embroidery and BSc Hons in Environmental Science, the latter informs her creative work and her concerns about the destruction of the natural world and subsequent biodiversity loss.
Rediscovering her 30-year-old drawing of the Geological Timescale inspired Lynda to create a record of the ultimate layers of life; an explanatory template in embroidery that illustrates the beauty and manifestation of the forces around us…to remind us of the long past.
Also, a reminder to remember how we’ve evolved to this point and to reclaim our seminal connections to these organic processes.
Lynda uses both hand and machine embroidery techniques; her creative process “just a matter of following the thread”. Holding a BA Hons in Creative Embroidery and BSc Hons in Environmental Science, the latter informs her creative work and her concerns about the destruction of the natural world and subsequent biodiversity loss.
The first challenge of this piece, ‘Life?’, was how to precis the power and wonder of organic growth across billions of years; geological processes that form mountains, photosynthesis that sustains all life on earth, the evolution and diversity of wild creatures, their epic migratory routes etc.
The second challenge was how to illustrate, in hand embroidery, humankind’s ‘recent’ fatal addiction to inorganic, unlimited economic growth, our devastating impact on the natural world and particularly, on the evolution of other creatures. Lynda hopes that nature’s wonders may yet work their magic upon us and allow us a more symbiotic future, worthy of this long past.
the power and wonder of organic growth across billions of years
