Eleonora Budden
![WOVEN WORLDS WOVEN WORLDS](images/showcase/eleonora-budden/EleonoraBudden-WovenWorlds.jpg)
WOVEN WORLDS
![IT’S ALL ABOUT THE TREE IT’S ALL ABOUT THE TREE](images/showcase/eleonora-budden/EleonoraBudden-ItsAllAboutTheTree.jpg)
IT’S ALL ABOUT THE TREE
![CHROMA : SOUND CHROMA : SOUND](images/showcase/eleonora-budden/EleonoraBudden-ChromaSound.jpg)
CHROMA : SOUND
![CHROMA : LONG SONG CHROMA : LONG SONG](images/showcase/eleonora-budden/EleonoraBudden-ChromaLongSong-with-details.jpg)
CHROMA : LONG SONG
![BOMBYX MORI BOMBYX MORI](images/showcase/eleonora-budden/EleonoraBudden-BombyxMori.jpg)
BOMBYX MORI
![BOMBYX MORI (detail of the moth) BOMBYX MORI (detail of the moth)](images/showcase/eleonora-budden/EleonoraBudden-BombyxMori%28detail%29.jpg)
BOMBYX MORI (detail of the moth)
![STAY SAFE STAY SAFE](images/showcase/eleonora-budden/EleonoraBudden-StaySafe.jpg)
STAY SAFE
![ENERGY ENERGY](images/showcase/eleonora-budden/EleonoraBudden-Energy.jpg)
ENERGY
I started learning tapestry in 2014 and fell in love with it in an instant. At first, I did figurative work usually based on a photograph. Later I started to explore abstraction. A few years on I realise that my work now moves back and forth between figurative and abstract. It is the challenge of something new that always inspires me.
Creating a narrative in tapestry is the most satisfying task. Long before I discovered tapestry weaving, I read a book in which one of the characters, Becca Weaver, was a tapestry weaver, and the characters she wove came to be in the world as she wove them. That is how tapestry weaving makes me feel.
In 2020 I was lucky to acquire a large loom and wove “It’s All about the Tree”, followed the “Chroma : Sound” and “Chroma : Long Song”. Of course, larger works take longer, but they also bring great satisfaction when they are done.