I’m currently working on a design for a new embroidery for the Pack of Wolves’ next exhibition – Once Upon Again – at Milkwood Gallery in Cardiff next spring.

The ‘brief’ for the exhibition has presented me with a new challenge in working with narrative based sources materials from old fairy tales – this one is from an old Russian tale about Baba Yaga. I’ve taken my inspiration for the layout of this piece of work from the old hand embroidered samplers that were produced by people wishing to practices their stitching in years gone by.

These are some of the sketches I’ve been working on in preparation for a new work I’m undertaking for the Pack of Wolves’ next exhibition – ‘Once Upon Again’ – next year.

The drawings are inspired the old Russian folk tale about a young girl called Vasilissa who encounters an old witch know as the Baba Yaga. As with many old fairy tales there are different versions of the Baba Yaga story and I’ve taken my inspiration from different versions of these to produce the sketches pictured here which include a cat weaving threads, a dog eating bread and Vasilissa running away with a skull lantern.