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Each portrait is hand-stitched with cotton thread, in larger-than-life dimensions, on stretched canvas. I like to include secondary elements, symbolic to the subject. In Jubilee and Self-Portrait, the borders, feather, and globe have special meaning to the subjects. To commission work, please contact me by phone or email.

Jubilee, 2007, 16 x 20 inches
Hand-stitched cotton thread on canvas

Not for sale

 

Jubilee (detail)

Self-portrait, 2007, 20 x 16, Hand-stitched cotton thread on canvas

Not for sale



This is my first portrait, ever, and my first thread project of this type (there are areas that I wish I had stitched differently). It was done on a whim, for an open-invitation self-portrait show, at the Austin Figurative Gallery.

Self-portrait (detail)

© Barbara Lugge 2007