Garden of Endings – Original Artwork

Garden of Endings is my most detailed embroidery to date—a piece that grew slowly over the course of several months and roughly 150 hours, stitch by deliberate stitch. It’s inspired by the Death tarot card, not in its grim interpretations, but in its truest meaning: transformation, release, and the quiet truth that from endings, new beginnings take root.

The piece gathers together a collection of symbols that sit between life and death. A raven keeps watch with a scythe across the background, and an empty hourglass rests nearby. A skull lies half-claimed by overgrowth. A death’s-head hawkmoth hovers, almost blending in with it's camouflage wings. Around them, all poisonous flowers and fungi - deadly nightshade, hemlock, morning glory, lily of the valley, fly agaric, pholiotina rugosa - unfurl with a beauty that’s both captivating and dangerous.

Although every element carries a touch of mortality, the embroidery itself is full of life: twisting stems, layered petals, tiny stitches of texture and colour. The whole piece became a meditation on the way endings feed beginnings, the way decay nourishes growth, the way something can be both beautiful and fatal at the same time.

This is a one-off original artwork, stitched entirely by hand. I wont be making any duplicates of it - just this single piece, carrying all the time, care, and quiet symbolism that went into its making.