Forest school nature

🌿 About the series

Forest School Nature collection is a series of three hand-stitched textile works translating childhood memory and alternative camera-less photographic processes into thread. The Loxley Wood site is an ancient mixed broadleaf woodland, historically dominated by oak, ash, and field maple, with hazel understorey and scattered conifers including larch and Norway spruce. These were the trees I learned beneath, walked through, plus handled weekly. The camera-less element came from capturing the types of nature using a hand held scanner a technique called scannography, then creating the pattern to be sewn into.

🧵 Process

If you genuinely want to know of the whole process I will enclose individually.

♿ Accessibility

• A braille transcript is mounted on the reverse of every canvas, offering a tactile description of the work. This allows blind and low-vision audiences to access the piece beyond visual interpretation. Accessibility is embedded into the work rather than added afterwards.

• The stitches create a pronounced raised surface, allowing the leaf forms to be physically traced by hand. High-contrast threads against the ground fabric supports low-vision viewing. Accessibility is embedded into the structure of each piece and in post production.

📏 Details

• 30cm / 12” round wooden canvas

• Hand; stitched, stretched, designed and sanded.

• Mounted + ready to hang

• Signed on reverse, dated

• Braille label included

• One of one

💚 Care

• Indoor display

• Spot clean only

• Ideally away from pets