Life in Seasons | Winter & Spring

Early each morning, Nicola and her beloved golden retriever, Quince, embark on a daily adventure exploring the Warwickshire countryside. This daily ritual has become the inspiration for a collection of stunning embroidered pieces, where Nicola has captured the changing seasons in the world around her in stitch.

In Volume 1, winter and spring are showcased in eight vignettes of local wildlife from a badger, lumbering through frosty undergrowth, a fox pausing beside a misty meadow, sparrows singing in the hedgerows to a moth spreading its delicately ornamented wings in the warm air.

Each design reflects the essential connections of animal and plant life through Nicola’s unique, embroidered ecosystems of flowing lines and intricate patterns, balancing texture and colour with wool, silk, cotton and metallic threads, all worked onto printed panels. A world of wonder and natural beauty awaits as you stitch your way through a Life in Seasons.

• Stoneleigh Badger
  Monochrome badger stitched with wool and silk threads onto linen twill
• Fairhurst Fox
  Shy fox embellished with flowers and leaves
• Warwickshire Hare
  Striking hare surrounded by a pussy willow wreath
• Milverton Mallard
  Colourful mallard amongst bulrushes and kingcup
• Avonlea Moth
  A diaphanous moth clothed in nettle flowers and leaves
• Blossom Hedge Sparrows
  Subtly coloured sparrows amongst delicate flowers and foliage
• The Allotment Basket
  Stunning stumpwork moths resting on a floral basket
• Small Blue Butterfly
  Tiny jewel-like butterfly with banded wing tips