For this week's #ArtAdventCalendar, in honour of the publication this year of my book "Dreams of Amarna", a sequence of Egyptological pieces..

First, the #AmarnaFamilyGroup, in #OrNue. This was my lockdown project, inspired by a combination of boundary stelae at Amarna, and the famous throne chair found in Tutankhamun's tomb.

#HandEmbroidery #DreamsOfAmarna

Here is another short video talking about the starting point for one of the Dreams of Amarna projects, this time, my lockdown project and subject of Slow TV Stitchery, the Amarna Family Group. It was one which took a lot of planning before I even started, but well worth it, I believe!

https://youtu.be/0ir2oUzhLMs

#DreamsOfAmarna #SlowTVStitchery #LockdownProject #AmarnaFamilyGroup #OrNué

https://youtu.be/0ir2oUzhLMs

StartOfFamily

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Here is another short video talking about the starting point for one of the Dreams of Amarna projects, this time, my lockdown project and subject of Slow TV Stitchery, the Amarna Family Group.

https://youtu.be/0ir2oUzhLMs

#DreamsOfAmarna #SlowTVStitchery #LockdownProject #AmarnaFamilyGroup #OrNué
https://youtu.be/0ir2oUzhLMs

StartOfFamily

YouTube
Five years ago, I was starting on the #AmarnaFamilyGroup in #OrNué, centring my spiral over Akhenaten's heart to suggest that his devotion to the Aten was a genuine revelation and not a political manoeuvre.

Storytelling in stitch.

#embroidery #HandEmbroidery #DreamsOfAmarna

Stitching the #AmarnaFamilyGroup during lockdown, now rendered in #watercolour, to be one of the #EgyptianMarginalia for the #DreamsOfAmarna.

#ArtistsLife #painting