Stitched Paintings Combine the Carefree Fluidity of Washes with Intricate Embroidery

Artist Fleur Woods calls her work ‘stitched paint­ings’. Com­bin­ing ele­ments of soft water-based paint­ing with the embroi­dery, her works cel­e­brate the nat­ur­al world in del­i­cate, almost ethe­re­al way; they feel as though they could float away with a pass­ing breeze.

Fleur is “most­ly self-taught” and devel­oped her style through exper­i­men­ta­tion and stu­dio time. “Par­tic­u­lar­ly drawn to tex­tiles she loves noth­ing more than drag­ging large swags of linen into the gallery gar­den to pour, brush, splash, and drip abstract lay­ers of washy paint onto its sur­face,” her web­site explains. “Once dry this becomes the base lay­er for fine botan­i­cal details applied in gouache and then intri­cate ele­ments of stitch to bring a final ele­ment of texture.”

Fleur sells her work occa­sion­al­ly through Etsy. You can also fol­low her work in progress on Insta­gram.