Stitching, a love story. A solo exhibition by Emily Jo Gibbs

'Stitching, a love story', brings together a series of hand embroidered textiles that Emily Jo Gibbs has been working on over the last four years.

Gibbs found the change in pace between running a fashion driven handbag business and establishing herself as an Artist quite difficult to navigate at times. Determined to make work that was personally and creatively rewarding she embarked on a series of embroidered portraits of her family. These intimate studies constructed from layers of silk organza and hand stitch, examine the relationships between parents and their children, the joys and the frustrations.

Also on show a series of hand embroidered drawings of sticks in Jam Jars. Gibbs’ strong sense of colour and proportion, and the subtle way she uses tiny coloured stiches, bring to life her delicate sketches. Inspired by nature tables that give gravitas and reference to collections of knobbly sticks, grass and other natural treasures,