Embroidering Over Images

Molly will show you how to transform images using easy embroidery techniques inspired by her own practice, which uses the traditional method of darning to “fix” images of her local coastline. You will learn how to create beautiful and colourful additions to found pictures, working with the image to alter and amend it, or work with geometric patterns to form new layers. You’ll be shown how to plan out patterns and colours to develop an exciting new embroidered image.

A little knowledge of sewing or embroidery is useful, but not required. All materials are included.

About Molly Rooke

Molly Rooke is an artist educator based in Exeter, Devon. Her work negotiates themes of preservation and restoration through coastal geography and heritage.

Currently she uses traditional methods of domestic fixing and repair in an expanded form, focussing on the degradation of the Somerset and Devon Coastlines and what might be considered futile attempts to protect it from being eroded any further.

Molly is a Fine Art graduate of Cardiff School of Art and Design and has an MA in Printmaking from the Royal College of Art. Her most recent solo show, ‘This was bound to happen sooner or later’ was shown earlier this year at Studio Kind in North Devon, and she is the recipient of a 2020/21 Somerset Art Works project development bursary, for which she has just completed a short residency at East Quay in Watchet. Her work is held in various collections including the British Museum and the Chelsea Library Special Collection.