Crochet is a versatile animal when it comes to turning your craft a bit arty. You're not limited to gentle row after row as you are with knitting and can pretty much turn your crochet hook off road into uncharted territory without so much as a hand signal. Artist Jo Hamilton shows us just that with her crochet portraits and other arty hand-hooked projects.
Jo is an artist who learnt drawing and painting at the Glasgow School of Art and turned to crochet as a medium much later in her career. Her crochet work features a collection of portraits that she has made by turning photographs of locals into fibre faces, as well as stitching colourful distorted cityscapes where woolly houses lurk in the shadows of twisty skyscrapers and crocheted cranes.
Her pieces are mounted on the walls with the yarn ends dangling giving them a quirky just-off-the-hook air and were featured in a Portland gallery earlier this year.
It seems a crochet hook can paint a thousand words too.
