A childhood spent in the Kent countryside meant that nature became a major part of Julia’s life. She later spent time flying on Concorde, chasing moon shadows and seeing nature’s wonders from the edge of space, but decided to rediscover the gift of the smaller, yet still miraculous, marvels that lay within her own garden instead. She found hand embroidery was the perfect way for her to share the beauty and magical life of nature, in all its sumptuous colour, texture and detail. It became her great passion to broider her findings.
She lives happily with her family of animals in an old cottage in Surrey.
The beauty and magic of nature seen through the eye of a needle.Colours of flowers and shapes of plants; bleached grass and golden cornfields at harvest time; spiders webs on the structures of decayed seedheads; a metallic green chafer beetle landing on a deep crimson rose; a shooting...
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