Karen Nicols

I really admire the work of Karen Nicol. I have seen her work at Designers Guild in the form of a tablecloth with print and stitch on linen and her work is in "Textile Designers at the Cutting Edge " a book published by Laurence King a book I must get hold off . Her work is very painterly and quite representational with an eye for detail and scale .She designs for lots of top design houses.Her work is featured is the May/June issue of Embroidery which is worth reading .It seems she studied at Manchester as I did but then went on to the Royal College of Art .