Cloch 2025

Print and hand embroidery on Irish linen | One-off work | 22 cm by 30 cm

Cloch is the Irish word for stone, a word that often suggests permanence, something fixed or unchanging. But this piece is a quiet meditation on the opposite, how even the most solid forms are always in flux.

This work was inspired by a stone I picked up along the shore of Strangford Lough. Seaweed had anchored itself to it, transforming it into a home. That idea stayed with me, how stones, shaped by people, water, time and weather, are constantly gathering and shedding the world around them.

I’ve used a combination of hand embroidery and printmaking to explore these ideas. The marks are made slowly and intuitively on Irish linen, using both antique threads and ones I dyed with natural pigments. Also depicted are a small vessel holding a quiet eruption, a stone with growing roots, and a cross-section of a stone.

Things aren’t always as they seem. Stones hold more than we often allow them to reveal: fragments of time, memory, place, and possibility.

This is a unique work. There are no reproductions, no editions, only this one piece, made by hand.

Made in Ireland.

It will arrive unframed on a mounting board ready for framing.

It will be posted within three working days.

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