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Sleep Softly because You Live in My Dreams  2014     50cm w x 100cm h   –    Mixed media; oil on linen canvas, inkjet printing, hand stitch

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Couple on BSA Golden Flash
Detail from Sleep Softly because You Live in my Dreams

Sleep Softly because You Live in my Dreams detail low res

Detail 2  from Sleep Softly because You Live in my Dreams

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Wind on the Water (detail) 2005    102cm w x 62cm h      –    Mixed media: acrylic on gessoed calico, silk-painted fabrics, hand stitch

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Rain on the Water (detail)   2005       102cm w x  62cm h      –    Mixed media: acrylic on gessoed calico, silk-painted fabrics, hand stitch

Leitmotif for Willow Gallery August 2017

Leitmotif  2014    100cm w x 50cm h  –    Mixed media: acrylic on linen canvas, silk-painted and inkjet printed fabrics, hand stitch

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Details from Leitmotif

A Depth of Water Caerfai Bay for Willow Gallery 2017

A Depth of Water: Caerfai Bay     2017   40cm w x 30cm h  –    Mixed media; acrylic on linen canvas, inkjet printed and silk-painted fabrics, hand stitch

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Detail from Winter Light  2010       40.5cm w x 58cm h    –    Mixed media; layered silk-painted and inkjet printed fabrics on cotton, hand stitch

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Poised 1 Solva  2012     51cm w x 42cm h      –    Mixed media; silk-painted and inkjet printed fabrics on cotton, hand stitch

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Poised 2  Solva 2012     51cm w x 42cm     –    Mixed media; silk-painted and inkjet printed fabrics on cotton, hand stitch

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Shoreline Symphony  2013     51cm w x 42cm h     –    Mixed media; silk-painted and inkjet printed fabrics on cotton, hand stitch

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In the Garden, Secretly   2013    30cm w x  60cm h    –    Mixed media; acrylic on block-mounted cotton canvas, silk-painted and inkjet printed fabrics, hand stitch

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In the Garden, Secretly   (detail 1)

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In the Garden, Secretly   (detail 2)

Eileen Harrisson Carried on the East Wind low res

Carried on the East Wind   2014     101cm w x 77cm h    –    Mixed media; silk-painted fabrics on cotton, Japanese tissue paper, hand stitch

Carried on the East Wind 2015 central detail low res

Carried on the East Wind   (detail)

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Crepuscular Wind, Ynyslas   2012      51cm w x 42cm h    –    Mixed media, acrylic on canvas, silk-painted fabrics, hand stitch

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Towards the Light    2014     75cm w x 58.5cm h      –    Mixed media; silk-painted and inkjet printed fabrics on calico, plastic netting, mirror shards, hand stitch

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Seven Breaths   2009    50cm w x 100cm h    –    Mixed media; acrylic on calico, silk-painted and inkjet printed fabrics, dried flower petals, machine and hand stitch

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Seven Breaths  (detail 1)

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Seven Breaths  (detail 2)

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Star-Spark: Etoile-Etincelle   2007    11cm w x 13cm h       –    Mixed media; acrylic and water-colour, layered materials on paper, hand stitch

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Star-Spark: Etoile-Etincelle  book opened out

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Star-Spark: Etoile-Etincelle    (detail)

Eileen Harrisson A Sacrifice Too Great full image low res

A Sacrifice Too Great   2019  77 cm w x 88 cm h     Mixed media, silk-painted and digitally printed fabrics on bleached linen including scrim and mulberry bark; dried flower petals; hand stitch

A Sacrifice Too Great central detail 2019 low res

Detail from piece

Eileen Harrisson A Quiet Singing low res August 2019

  Artist’s book A Quiet Singing  2019  22 cm w x 16 cm h x 2.5 cm d    –  mixed media, Saunders Waterford and Indian rag papers, linen, cotton and organza fabrics and mulberry bark; silk-painted and digitally printed fabrics; silk, cotton and linen threads; hand stitch

The book is photographed on exhibition in Hoxton Arches Gallery, London.

Eileen Harrisson page from book A Quiet Singing low res May 2019

A page from  A Quiet Singing the inspiration for which was Prism’s exhibition Fragility which took place in June 2019 in Hoxton Arches Gallery, London and which will next be shown in the RBSA Gallery, Birmingham in October 2019. The book is made up of images on paper and cloth and contains five complete poems.

Eileen Harrisson A Quiet Singing front cover low res

Front cover of the book

Portrait of my Father from A Quiet Singing low res

Another page from the book. Included in the book is my poem Gift: for my Father and this image is digitally printed onto cloth from an original embroidery and stitched to Indian rag paper.

Belfast Lagan Revisited during making of the book A Quiet Singing

During the making of the book. This ‘transparent’ page was for the poem Belfast, Lagan Revisited

Organza page from A Quiet Singing July 2019 low res

The page in the book

Doll Maria Chiara for Arpillera Doll Virtual Exhibition 2020

Doll for Mi Guernica April 2020 low res

She is 20.5 cm tall and below she is cradled in my hand

Maria Chiara Doll for Mi Guernica April 2020 in hand against white low res