This Artist Creates Beautiful Embroideries Inspired By British Landscapes (30 Pics)
Victoria Rose Richards is a self-taught embroidery artist who creates stunning embroideries inspired by the aerial views of British landscapes. She has already created over 200 of them and it doesn’t look like she’s stopping anytime soon!
In a recent interview with Bored Panda, Victoria said that around June of last year, she was doing a Color Series where she were creating landscapes in each color of the color wheel and found herself getting stuck on the green one. “As I was thinking of ideas, I was looking at the fields opposite my bedroom window and wondered how a top-down view of fields and trees would work out for it!” explained the artist. “I did the first piece and fell right in love—I already had an interest in aerial views and I felt like I’d found my thing in this!”
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Some of the less detailed embroideries that Victoria makes can take between 6 and 25 hours to make but the bigger and more intricate ones can take up to 50.
“I like to make my pieces as bright as possible, so I like to use strong, rich colors even if in a real life landscape, they’d be dull,” explained the artist. “I like to think of my art style as an optimistic one!”
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Victoria says that the biggest challenge when creating the embroideries is getting the perspectives right. “For example, a tree can be a big, fluffy French knot, but the sheep next to it a tiny white speck—some details I add in are hardly visible in the photos!” explained the artist.
See more of Victoria’s beautiful illustrations below!
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