Artist: Ashley Hoey

Title: Adalyn

Medium: Graphite, glass and jade beads, embroidery floss on Legion Stonehenge paper

Size: 8x10, matted & framed

This stunning beaded & embroidered portrait is by Artist, Ashley Hoey

Artist statement:

My portraits concentrate on depictions of fragile and seductively melancholy women exploring the parallels of ecstasy and sorrow. While I do not come from a textile background, the inclusion of embroidery and beading to my drawings was derived from a desire for something more challenging and different by adding an extra dimension of texture, colour and depth. A further richness is added by my use of semiprecious stone, silks, and other fine materials.