Embroidered Figure

The Sketch Hunter - embroidery work

The Sketch Hunter – 17cm x 14cm on linen

She carries her sketchbook everywhere, collecting ideas.

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The sketch hunter moves through life as he finds it, not passing negligently the things he loves, but stopping to know them, and to note them down in the shorthand of his sketchbook. Like any hunter he hits or misses. He is looking for what he loves, he tries to capture it. It’s found anywhere, everywhere. Those who are not hunters do not see these things. The hunter is learning to see and to understand—to enjoy.

— Robert Henri, from The Art Spirit (Basic Books, 2007)

'Young woman sitting under a tree'

Hand embroidered with stranded cottons on a linen background and stretched over mount board, measures: 16.5cm x 11.5cm

One available from my shop:

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The visual storytelling of Tamembro. Works in thread and paint.

— Tamembro

“The stories she could tell”

2017. Mixed media on canvas.

— Tamembro

The Sketch Hunter #2

hand embroidered with stranded cotton threads on linen; it measures 31cm x 33cm

2022 - 2023

Everything in nature is changing, and so is your story. Acceptance doesn’t mean this is how it’s going to end. It’s an acknowledgement that this is where it begins. We are all works in progress. To be alive is to evolve. You can play an active role in that evolution, but first you need to recognise that it is happening.

📖 'Wabi Sabi' : Japanese Wisdom for a Perfectly Imperfect Life (2018) by Beth Kempton

Whenever I look at the ocean, I always want to talk to people, but when I'm talking to people, I always want to look at the ocean.

📖 'Hear the Wind Song', Haruki Murakami

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"Message in a bottle"

Hand-stitched on used tea bag

'in the woods'

hand embroidered with stranded cotton threads on linen; 16.5cm x 9cm

— tamembro, 2020

“October in the Chair,” Neil Gaiman, featured in M is for Magic

'Bright and dark'

'A tiny house in the middle of a lake'

Acrylic paint on gesso, linen patches and paper: 10.5 x 14.8 cm

From the 'Water' painting series (March 2020)

— Tamembro