Pré Fleuri is a superb hand-embroidered design on linen, impressionist in style, evoking fields seen from the sky, their grasses swept by the wind. The stitching is the weather in this picture: directional, layered, alive with movement, each thread a blade bending. From across a room it reads as a soft, shifting texture; up close it becomes landscape. It is needlework doing what paint usually claims for itself.
