Needlepoint /canvas embroidery, (predominantly couching and tent stitch). Worked in a variety of threads, including crewel wools, knitting wools, silks, metallic threads, recycled sari silk and cottons. On a linen scrim canvas.
Approximately 40 x 30cm
Stitched between December 2012 and January 2013.
Hedonism: sensual indulgence – the ethical theory that pleasure (in the sense of the satisfaction of desires) is the highest good and proper aim of human life.
Oh, the colors! And the swirls! And the curls! Hedonism indeed!
Yep, it seemed just the right name for that piece x