Anne has been suffering from pneumonia for several months but died in hospital of a heart attack on Monday 14th March (information from Mary Paulger).
Anne has been coming to stitch clubs for longer than I have – over 15 years. She was foremost a scientist and had created a environmental business which wrote reports about animals, plants and geology on land going through a change of use. Her business was financially successful, but it was hard for her to let go and I know she was still editing reports, even last year.
Anne lived next to Chambers Wood where she voluntarily kept an eye on several animals including bats and dormice. She was a mother with a grown up son and hoped to move nearer to him in the south of England in the next year or so.
She had been working on a family tree embroidery which she brought to many stitch clubs. She enjoyed using her scientific method at workshops – I remember one where she made samples with disperse dyes – various fabrics and various dye mixes.
Anne appreciated other people’s art and bought some of my mother’s work and one of mine. She was very keen on the idea of photo/fabric montage and I think she was having a go herself at home last year. She felt that this might be the answer for all her unfinished embroidery pieces – they could be absorbed into a collage or several collages together with photos of her favourite places.
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