OK - I'm called Rose Hatcher - so is it any wonder that I’ve always invented flowers?

 

As a child I loved to gather random petals, sepals, stamens, stems and leaves, only to re-assemble them into something previously unknown.  So many colourful, curious and infeasible new species were discovered in our garden - a plant hunter’s paradise !!

 

Over a lifetime I’ve stitched, woven, embroidered, felted, knitted, crocheted, painted, collaged, printed, cut, stuck and soldered thousands of imaginary blooms and still I find that any resemblance to real life is purely coincidental.  

 

The flower gardens and meadows I create now continue to defy botanical exactitude, rather giving free rein to flights of floral fancy and audacious herbaceous improbability.    Jewel-bright silk fibres and hand spun silk yarns jostle for immediate attention, but look deeper into the shadows to find what lurks beyond….

 

The hybrid approach I’ve nurtured to create this jungle of colour has roots buried deep in wet-felting, silk paper-making and collage techniques.

 

If my imaginary flowers give you even a micro-moment of joy, and brighten your day, my work is done.