Kenris MacLeod is a textile artist who lives and works in Edinburgh, Scotland. Her work uses the medium of freemotion machine embroidery – painting with thread – to describe the textures and complexity of the natural world, specifically trees. Using the sewing machine needle as a pencil or a paintbrush, she sews complex designs that combine repetitive forms and abstract shapes with elemental natural imagery, connecting us to our ancient roots and tapping into a memory that is almost, but not quite, lost.
Kenris, who is a professional member of the Society of Scottish Artists, has recently had work on show at the prestigious Scottish Landscape Awards in Edinburgh’s City Art Centre. She regularly exhibits with the Society of Scottish Artists and Visual Arts Scotland and her work is in private collections all over the world.
‘Rocheid Path Reflection’
There’s a stretch of Edinburgh’s Water of Leith which runs between Rocheid Path and the Glenogle colonies where, by a red bridge, an old weeping willow dips its leafy fingers into the river. This piece asks the viewer which way is up? What is real and what is reflected? Which world are you in?
