Embroidery artists find inspiration in all sorts of unexpected places, and that’s certainly the case with Victoria Rose Richards. She’s using her embroidery skills to stitch together aerial landscapes of the Devon countryside, and her aerial embroidery has to be seen to be believed.
Richards is a biology graduate from the UK, who decided to give embroidery a shot while looking for a new hobby after going through a rough patch. After doing embroidery on and off for years, she found green and blue thread in her grandmother’s old tin and decided to try working on some landscape embroidery.
This decision defined her journey as an embroidery artist going forward, and her art is now mostly inspired by endless meadows and lush forests of her homeland.
“I’ve always had an interest in aerial landscapes and use a combination of stitches on felt sheets to recreate them based on the Devon countryside. I particularly enjoy recreating the fields – I love the shapes they naturally form and are made to form by agriculture, seemingly perfectly fitted together yet forced,” she writes on her official website.
Richards enjoys using Google Earth for inspiration, but many of her landscapes stem from her own imagination. As an autistic person, she finds the process of working on her embroidery pieces calming and therapeutic, and she believes her neurodiversity is an integral part of her art.
