What if Google Earth showed you landscapes like this?
Her name is Victoria Rose Richards, she is only 22 years old and her passion is embroider landscapes full of fields, streams, flowers and trees like the ones you might see from an airplane window or looking for your next destination through Google Earth.
She started a couple of years ago, she tells Traveler.es, because she has a tendency to get bored. "I was looking for a hobby, I tried this technique and I haven't stopped since!" Victoria also has Asperger syndrome and she explains how this hobby also helps calm her mind. Today she wears hundreds of different embroideries and more than 100,000 followers on Instagram Follow her creations.
UP TO 120 HOURS OF WORK PER PIECE
On average, each piece means between 6 and 25 hours of work and 6 complete balls of wool , although "the one that has taken me the most hours - he says - is 120, for a 40-centimeter piece with fields of tulips, oilseeds and lakes". Is biology graduate and nature lover she is inspired – she explains – in her immediate surroundings, the county of Devon, south-west of England . "I'm lucky to live in a place with forests, fields, rivers and moors."
And while each piece may have a theme such as spring, summer or lakes, "the main focus is always the fields and agriculture." Sunflowers, tulips, poppies, wheat or lavender they fill many of her works.
What if Google Earth showed you landscapes with embroidery?
She doesn't follow any family traditions, but she does remember that her grandfather was a landscape painter. No one has taught her her technique either, and she also explains to us that when she starts a piece she rarely knows how she is going to finish it. Looking to the future, she does not rule out embroidering more foreign landscapes, because she also likes them " the hot, dry or lush tropics of other continents ”. And she encourages those who like it to try it. "To try different materials, threads and stitches and thus discover what we like the most."
In the meantime, Victoria Rose Richards She sells her work on networks and has just launched a website.