Embroidery art by Amy Jones

Amy Jones finds inspiration in our feathered friends, and her love of birds is at the forefront of her embroidery art. The New Zealand-based artist stitches distinguished portraits of budgies that offer a traditional view of them. She also creates another type of homage that’s offbeat, curious, and alluring; fashioning birds as masks, her stitched people wear their colorful feathers and pointed beaks over their faces. They are devoid of a background, and the figures exist in an in-between space.

The resulting hoop art are portraits that symbolize the dilemmas that each of us faces every day—what do we show the world? Our true inner selves, or a colorful distracting mask?

Amy sells her work in her Etsy shop, Cheese Before Bedtime.

Through colorful embroidery art, Amy Jones creates portraits of budgies…

Embroidery art by Amy Jones

Embroidery art by Amy Jones

… as well as alluring bird-inspired masks.

Embroidery art by Amy Jones

Embroidery art by Amy Jones

Embroidery art by Amy Jones

Embroidery art by Amy Jones

Embroidery art by Amy Jones

Embroidery art by Amy Jones

Embroidery art by Amy Jones

Embroidery art by Amy Jones

Embroidery art by Amy Jones

Embroidery art by Amy Jones

Embroidery art by Amy Jones

Bird embroidery art by Amy Jones

Surreal hand embroidery by Amy Jones

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