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Community Art at Yardley Wood 100ft Mosaic

The 100ft Mosaic Project. In July of 2016, I was assistant artist to Caroline Jariwala of Mango Mosaics. We worked […]

I completed a commission to decorate some mosaic pots for the Festival Theatre at the Royal Horticultural Society Spring Festival

Nicky Perryman / February 25, 2016

This little kingfisher started out as a very vague silk painting. I used acrylic inks to create a mottled background

Nicky Perryman / December 15, 2015

My mother was the first person to really help and inspire me with embroidery. She was the one who made

Nicky Perryman / December 12, 2015

I’ve tried to recapture the sense of decoration and opulence I experience while visiting the Alhambra in Granada, Spain. There

I love sparrows, the sound of them chirping in garrulous clouds in bushes and thickets and under house eves. I

Shimmer shimmer shimmer. It’s taking forever to “sequinize” this peacock embroidery.

I’ve submitted three pieces of textile work to the Royal Birmingham Society of Artists Friends’ Autumn exhibition – Brown Grasses,

I’m still obsessed with grasses and tall flower spikes. I don’t think it’s going to go away any time soon.

I only found out about “World Embroidery Day” from the Mahila Community on facebook a few days ago – it

Stitches are like plants: they grow organically if you let them, springing forth from the fertile ground of furrowed fabric.

The weather has been so warm and sunny recently (hip hip hooray!) that I’ve been feeling the need to use