Collection: Edith Pargh Barton

Edith’s work is rooted in the observation of the world around her. There is warmth and humour in her paintings and sculptures that reveals a joy in playing with paint and fabric, and a delight in the unusual; of existing in between the real and the imaginary.

Her textile sculptures have human like qualities that people connect with emotionally and respond to on a profound level. Her abstract paintings depict landscapes that are familiar - yet strange; they are journeys into a dream-like place created out of personal memories. Her paintings contain stitch-like marks and staccato tacks, scratched onto thick layers of paint. Similarly, the surfaces of Edith’s sculptures are built up like layers on canvas. Hand constructed from fabric, the sculptures are painted, dyed, slashed, layered and embroidered with a wide variety of hand and machine stitches that echo her mark making in paint.