Boundary at Lords

My husband took me to a cricket test match at Lord’s and although the cricket was interesting, I decided to do some sketches of my surroundings.

I only had a scrap of paper and a stub of a hard pencil, so the sketches were pretty basic efforts. I also took simple photos, to remind myself what the structures really looked like!

Boundary at Lords

I scanned the sketches into my computer, and ‘cleaned’ them up’ before more manipulations with ‘PaintShopPro’ image software. My final aim was to produce a large, impressionistic collage picture of Lord’s cricket ground, for a charity dinner to be held there on behalf of the Teenage Cancer Trust Fund.

Boundary at Lords

I scanned the sketches into my computer, and ‘cleaned’ them up’ before more manipulations with ‘PaintShopPro’ image software. My final aim was to produce a large, impressionistic collage picture of Lord’s cricket ground, for a charity dinner to be held there on behalf of the Teenage Cancer Trust Fund.

Boundary at Lords

Designing the collage was a long process. I printed my manipulated images onto fabric which I then cut in different places.

All the elements, and some extra dyed fabrics, were held in place with simple hand embroidery and then permanently fixed by lines of machine quilting over wadding.

Boundary at Lords

The final photo shows one of the prints being displayed in the Lord’s Museum, with the artist, prior to the dinner.