ALT - architecture, lithography, textiles
Karen is a Director of the award-winning architectural practice, Thomas Ford & Partners specialising in conservation and work to the historic environment. She is learning stone lithography in the delALTprint studio and both stone and paper lithography are finding their way into her textile work. Architecture and historic surfaces and narratives often lead to ideas for stitched textiles.
Restored studio window at St Edward's Presbytery, Ramsgate. Photograph, John Miller
Detail: Wandle Misremembered. Paper lithography and machine embroidery
New external gate after Pugin. Ramsgate St Augustine
Embroidered Doves Press lettering in progress
Dinning Room , Emery Walker House. Emery Walker was the typographer of the Doves type
Wattle seed
Garboldisham Map
New internal gates after AWN Pugin, St Augustine's Ramsgate
New gate for St Augustine's Churchyard, Ramsgate
Wortham Cherub
Conservation needs at Emery Walker House
Clearer than IKEA: carpenters' marks at Providence Chapel, Charlwood
From Napoleonic guardhouse to community resource. Providence Chapel, Charlwood
Pebbles
Appreciating significance, careful research, sound knowledge of traditional building and materials together with a good eye underpin Karen’s approach to architectural projects in nationally important historic buildings.