Tuesday Talent - Penny Lever Green

 Penny Lever Green is a British textile artist working with thread and fabric to create stitched pictures.  The provenance of both her thread and fabric is important to her and informs her practice.  For example on her website, 'www.pennylevergreen.co.uk' she mentions using a collection of linen family owned napkins to make a cot quilt or a 1940's child's handkerchief to make a piece about nursery rhymes.

Penny makes images that are both subtle and thought provoking.  She makes more that just birds, I happen to like her birds best but she works all kind of ideas into gentle images with quite powerful thoughts behind them.  For example at the Touchstone Gallery in Rochdale she showed a collection of work called Unintended Consequences - looking at the results of indiscriminate collecting of birds eggs by Victorian collectors and the results to the environment of invasive plant species.  That was back in 2013 and I have followed her work ever since.

Have a peep at her website, there are links there to her blog, which is current and enjoy a thoughtful artist working in a considered manner.