New Zealand artist, Fleur Woods, fell in love at a young age with textiles and threads. Her stitched paintings are made using fabric, gouache, and embroidery.
Working ting from her studio gallery in the heart of rural Upper Moutere, she draws inspiration from flora and nature.
Partly self-taught, she explains her process was achieved through trial and error. And through her crafty work, she feels connected to the generations of women before her.
“I think those women were so resilient. I feel like it’s an amazing, almost a feminist act,” she told Stuff Magazine. “Because making beautiful stitching, making something beautiful, was not necessary,”
“People started stitching to mend and to create clothing, but to add the beauty was a way of women saying; ‘We have skills and we can do something special. We can make beauty in otherwise very simple lives.”
