Painting with Thread: New Work by Caye Zavaglia

24 April 2016

Cayce Zavaglia’s embroidered portraits are unbelievable. Four years ago, Design Milk featured her photorealistic thread portraits, and now she’s taken her process and skills to a WHOLE new level: the reverse.

Visitors who walk too quickly through her current exhibition at Lyons Weir Gallerymight miss the basic fact that all these images are sewn – not painted.

Half of the show features Cayce’s painstaking embroidery work. As in her previous exhibition, a couple portraits use a thicker “crewel wool” thread (above), but newer smaller works push the level of detail higher using much thinner thread (below): a one ply cotton, silk and wool thread.