Lancashire Rich Jam Cake is a new piece of work I’ve created about my love of food. The embroidery is based around one of my late mother’s recipes and celebrates a Lancashire version of a jam pasty or a jam slice.
The completed artwork
The words and original design are my own.
Lancashire Rich Jam Cake
Good food and good memories form the foundation to this artwork.
Work in progress
“This cake were a firm favourite at every school or church event I went to as a kid. Folk would make it to sell or cut it up and share it with a hot brew. This crowd pleaser were perfect to cut into little squares; or as my aunt used to do – cut it into pie slice wedges and arrange it on a big flowery china plate for an afternoon treat.” ~ Catherine Hill.
Close up of the work
Vintage Sylko threads
Hand embroidered cotton cloth, vintage Sylko threads. Size 23.5 x 11.5cm
I’m pleased to share that my hand embroidered work will be on display on the Embroiderers’ Guild stand at the Fashion & Embroidery Show, NEC Birmingham 13th-16th March 2025.
I’m pleased to announce that Summer ’76 and Summer 2022 Part 2 have been jury selected for the Plas Brondanw Open 2025.
Summer ’76
The exhibition will be on show at Plas Brondanw, Llanfrothen, Penrhyndeudraeth, Gwynedd, LL48 6SW, from 8 March – 4 May.
Summer 2022 Part 2
“The theme of this year’s exhibition is ‘Space’, and it has inspired a varied and exciting response among our artists, with works in all mediums from textiles and sculptures to oil paintings, photographs and drawings of all kinds. The content also varies from the mythological to the scientific and from the abstract to the figurative, and we have an amazing selection of experienced and new artists.” ~ Plas Brondanw
Thank you to Sian Elen, Contemporary Art Curator at Plas Brondanw for including my work in the exhibition.
The success of Portmeirion Potteries was only one facet of Susan’s life and work. Susan was an accomplished artist and author, drawing inspiration from the sea as did her father. Susan studied at Chelsea School of Art under Henry Moore and Graham Sutherland. Her paintings exhibited at the Festival of Britain. Several rooms at Portmeirion Village are furnished with her textile designs.
Portmerion Pottery designs by Susan Williams-Ellis. Designs called Cypher, Totem and Jupiter.
Plas Brondanw (the house and gallery) is the home of the Susan Williams-Ellis Foundation. The charity – established after Susan’s death – conserves her archive and ensures her work and that of the wider family are available to the public.
Update 4th May 2025:
Here are some images from the last day of the exhibition.
Plas Brondanw
Catherine and her hand embroidered artwork on display within the venue
Hand embroidered artworks on display within the venue