Embroidery Portrait.

 A portrait embroidery on digitally printed fabric. I used blown ink on

paper to produce the original surface then scanned the image in to print.

The red, blue and yellow are derived from the normal colours for

medical illustrations of the vascular and nervous system.

N.B. I do know you should never back on black. This is quite an old
image and I don't really know what I was thinking.

Histological Embroidery.

Embroideries of histological (cells and stuff) structures, featuring neural, 

dermal, muscular and osseous (boney) tissues. These images were a 

part of my 'Anatomy as Portraiture' project and served to highlight that

we are all made of the same base tissues, that these same tissues combine to 

produce a unique individual. These structures form the underlying architecture 

of our bodies.

Ink Portraits.

Soluble ink pens on paper, showing the musculature of the face and neck.

Again I wanted to maintain relatable features, for this reason most of the

face its self is whole. The image on top is quite a bit larger than the bottom,

I think this is why the colours turned out a bit more transparent. I think I 

prefer working on a smaller scale, with these materials in particular. And yes

they are two different people.

Relief Prints.

Some quick relief prints I did as part of my 'Portraiture as Anatomy' project

The aim of the work as a whole was to describe the structures underlying the 

face, surface anatomy was vastly important to this however. The face as seen 

from the surface gives reference to the musculature and underlying structures

and by making images showing the face as normal it makes images of the 

anatomy more relatable to those who know little about the subject.