Olga Prinku
Olga is an embroidery artist who uses real organic material as her thread. She uses various techniques to attach natural materials – such as dried and preserved flowers, foliage, grasses, seedheads and berries – to tulle fabric. Olga created the concept of flowers-on-tulle embroidery in 2016, and the techniques she uses are entirely self-taught. Her first book, Dried Flower Embroidery: An Introduction to the Art of Flowers on Tulle, was published in 2021. Originally from the Republic of Moldova, Olga lives with her husband and son in North Yorkshire, where she takes inspiration from nature on long walks in the local countryside.
Olga Prinku
Olga is an embroidery artist who uses real organic material as her thread. She uses various techniques to attach natural materials – such as dried and preserved flowers, foliage, grasses, seedheads and berries – to tulle fabric. Olga created the concept of flowers-on-tulle embroidery in 2016, and the techniques she uses are entirely self-taught. Her first book, Dried Flower Embroidery: An Introduction to the Art of Flowers on Tulle, was published in 2021. Originally from the Republic of Moldova, Olga lives with her husband and son in North Yorkshire, where she takes inspiration from nature on long walks in the local countryside.
The light in your eye
Textile/Embroidery
80cm x 80cm x 80cm
A representation of a human eye using dried branches of silver birch (Betula pendula) and dried flowers of mangles everlasting (Rhodanthe manglesii) and riceflower (Ozothamnus diosmifolius), woven into tulle fabric. Like sunlight glinting through a forest, the gold leaf backing to the pupil highlights the metaphorical “light in one’s eyes” that is said to be a window to the soul. The use of natural materials embodies light as being, through photosythesis, the root of all life. The combination of inward- and outward-growing branch-work speaks to how information enters our minds and we “shed light” on the world through our understanding.
