Ditty Dokter
Tapestry Weaver
Weavings for Sale
These are the weavings that I currently have on sale, with dimensions and information about the materials they contain. They are freehanging from a stick, mounted on stretched canvas or within a box. Please use the form on the contacts page to enquire further or if you wish to make a purchase.
From Landscape
Ploughed Field
Opposite my home the use of the field changes annuallly. This year it was ploughed up and the purple brown colours of the earth echoed those of the pink lilac mist
Materials: woollen yarn, fleece, cotton, silk and crocheted edge
Dimensions 70 by 100 cm
£400
Fenland mist
Fenland Mist shows the silvery winterlight washing over the intermingling water, land and sky in the Fens of east Anglia. It was woven for the Eastern region tapestry Group exhibition at the Courtyard gallery in Hertford.
Material: wool, fleece, cotton, linnen and silk, hand felted elements
Dimensions 42 by 108 cm
£ 450
Highland Heather Mountain
Heather Mountain was based on the flowering of the heather in the Western highlands. For a Dutch migrant, with a love of flat heather fields the vertical heatherscape against the blue of the stream and the sky left a remaining impression.
Materials: fleece, woollen and cotton yarn with a crocheted edge
Dimensions 50 by 70 cm
£ 450
From Water
This weaving evokes swimming in the river Cam, the water rippling around me
Woollen, cotton, linen and silk yarns, closed weave.
Dimensions 23 x 31 cm
£ 250
River Ripples
Kelp
Kelp weaving in the sea off the coast of orkney
Mixed yarns and fleece, close weave.
Dimensions 21 x 21 cm
£ 200
Off the coast of paxos the mediterranean bashed against a rocky headland. The turqoises, blues and greens sparkled in the light.
Mixed wool, silk and cotton, as well as woollen fleece and unspun silk.
Dimensions 22 x 31cm
£ 200
Wave
Wave coming into a narrowing bay
Mixed yarns (cotton, wool, silk, paper) and fleece. Close weave.
Dimensions 20 x 26cm
£ 200
Coastal rocks
From Forest Woodland and Fungi
Old forests show a multitude of fungi in autumn. This weaving evokes some of the range and interaction of trees and fungi
Mixed yarns, knitted and crocheted elements
Dimensions 22 x 65cm
£ 250
Fungal Forest
Fungus spreading around an old tree stump
Mixed yarns and fleece with knitted elements.
Freehanging open weave
Dimensions 22 x 44 cm
£ 150
Bracket Fungus
Early autumn in a South Downs Hollow way.
Wool, fleece, silk and wrapped found objects
Dimensions 56 x 70cm
£250
Hollow Way
Evokes the forest path to a small forest tarn.
Woven from mixed yarns and fleece, open weave.
Dimensions 25 x 70 cm
£200
Bospad - Forest Path
A birch copse, as found in East Anglia and the Netherlands. Woven with a range of yarns and fleece with crocheted and knitted elements.
Free hanging from a driftwood stick, open weave
Dimensions 32 x 110 cm
£ 600
Birches
From Other Weavings
Shaped tapestry in open weave, using a range of yarns inspired by a shard of Flint found on Orkney
Dimensions 17 x 22 cm
£ 100
Flint.
Portrait of dramatherapist John Whitelock, woven for a St Albans museum exhibition, commemorating people who had been important to the community. John worked as a therapist in several of the asylums (which later became the community mental health trust), surrounding St Albans in Hertfordsire
Materials mixed worsted woollen yarns, close weave.
Dimensions 24 x 32 cm
£ 350
Portrait of a therapist