The distinctive characteristics and unsophisticated style of the pictorial sampler, provides an imaginary world where a variety of motifs can exist in the same space regardless of relative proportion and scale. Traditional and contemporary themes alike, are able to sit comfortably together in the one composition, and have often provided a unique insight into the social history of a particular period.

This detail from a large sampler commission, is a personal record of a traditional family farm and reflects the atmospheric landscape of the East Anglian countryside.