It was very exciting to see Alice’s Garden of England embroidery at the private view in The Queen’s House at the National Maritime Museum yesterday. Having worked with Alice on the lace like Flower helix and seen her embroidery in various different stages it was lovely to see it all in place at the site. Alice had combine floral and lace themes from some of the portraits and the Tulip staircase to produce an embroidered portrait of Henrietta Maria and an embroidered Garden of flowers for the floor in one room (see image above) and a cascade of flowers for the Tulip staircase (image below).
I blogged previously about helping Alice devise and produce the Flower helix (in March 2013) in collaboration with Gail Baxter and it was exciting to see it in place at last. Alice had also kindly acknowledged our help on the label for the work and we were also thanked in the speeches as well as being given a beautiful rose each and one of Alice’s colourful embroidered flowers as a brooch.
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