“My pieces are a mixed-media of sorts. I start a piece with an original sketch. I then use a stitch program to design them by placing one stitch at a time. With this technique I can create texture with density, layers, and stitch direction. My sewing machines sew the design according to how I plotted each stitch.
The backgrounds are fabric, which I paint in acrylic, and the frames I make from recycled wood. The initial process of building the design stitch-by-stitch can take up to eight hours. The average design has around 20,000 stitches in it.”