‘Pendle Hill with Cows’
1984Window hanging
10" diameter
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The shape of Pendle Hill dominates the countryside around Whalley in Lancashire. This autumn scene with cows grazing was actually, quite by chance, instrumental in the birth of my best-selling paperweights.
My friend who runs the local craft shop had been doing some embroidery to mount in a glass paperweight. That day I had called by with a book of photographs of my latest window hangings to show her and while we were chatting, I casually put the glass blank down on the photograph of ‘Pendle Hill with Cows’ – the rest is history! The following year, I exhibited a large range of paperweights, made from photographs of window hangings, at my first Trade Show at Harrogate – the show which launched my commercial career.