Colleen Davies @colleen_daves
Witches' Flight
14”, embroidery floss on green velvet
April/May 2026
After Francisco Goya's 1798 painting of the same name.
@colleen_daves Sadly this is very hard to light/photograph (eg. the canvas is a beautiful dark green), but this is quite stunning in person.
Colleen's work is very experiential. It needs to be taken in IRL. The layering, the detail, the expressiveness, the mastery of lighting is lost in jpegs.
Colleen Davies @colleen_daves
Kaptive Beauty
8” embroidery floss on cotton, bamboo hoop
Feb. 2026
After an image in Kaptive Beauties Volume 1, Number 1. (Pinnacle Publishers, 1974)
Even the canvas buckled, unable to lay flat out of sympathy for how tightly she was bound.
Colleen Davies @colleen_daves
"And for that moment, we were very close"
6", Embroidery floss on cotton in vintage steel hoop
May/June 2025
Based on a scene from the 1972 Bergman film, Cries and Whispers. Sorry about the lens flare in the back-lit close-up.