The Artist
Eliza Gomersall is a hand embroidery artist with strong technical proficiency and a deep passion for craftsmanship. Based in a rural village in Southeast England, her studio is a sanctuary for making, a space where each piece is meticulously handcrafted and shaped by the beauty of the natural world.
Eliza studied Hand Embroidery at The Royal School of Needlework, where she developed a strong foundation in traditional techniques and a deep respect for precision and process. She later completed the Chanel & King’s Foundation Metiers d’Art Embroidery Fellowship in partnership with le19M, deepening her understanding of haute couture craftsmanship and contemporary embroidery practice.
Alongside her personal work, Eliza is an experienced freelance embroiderer, contributing to projects within the fashion and costume industries. This professional experience continues to inform her own practice, strengthening her approach to design and process.
She is recognized within the embroidery community for Palingenesis, her fantastical moth sculpture, which won the Hand & Lock Prize 2022. The piece embodies the evolving potential of embroidery as both material and medium for storytelling.
Eliza’s experiences have profoundly shaped her practice, influencing the themes and techniques she continues to explore. Through formal training, hands-on experimentation, and personal reflection, she has developed a deep commitment to craftmanship, creativity, and the delicate balance between reality and fantasy.
Artistic Vision
Eliza’s work is rooted in the tangibility of nature and the ways organic forms become vessels for imagination. From insects to British landscapes, she reimagines the natural world through a dreamlike lens, creating pieces that feel like otherworldly relics.
Themes of Transformation lie at the heart of her work, both in subject and material. Drawn to creatures that symbolise change, such as moths and frogs. She reworks vintage lace and found materials, preserving traces of the past while giving them new meaning through embroidery.
Eliza also explores painting to achieve a soft, ethereal atmosphere in her work, using colour and tone to enhance the sense of fantasy and distortion that runs throughout her practice.
As her practice evolves, she is expanding from one-of-a-kind embroidered artworks into jewellery collections that feel alive, caught between reality and fantasy. Her vision is to create a world where craft, imagination, and wearability coexist, and each piece carries a quiet sense of wonder.
Workshops
Alongside her studio practice, Eliza shares her love of embroidery through workshops that celebrate the beauty of making by hand. Her teaching encourages creativity, confidence, and a mindful approach to craft.
She has taught at Hand & Lock, the renowned London embroidery house, and at Highgrove, the private residence of His Majesty King Charles III. Each workshop reflects her artistic values, care, curiosity and imagination, offering an inspiring space for others to connect with embroidery and their own creativity.
Artist’s Signature
Eliza’s signature is created directly from her own handwriting and acts as a defining mark within her practice. This handwritten signature represents her identity as an artist and maker, and serves as a symbol of authenticity, care, and craftsmanship. it will appear across her original artworks, jewellery collections, and embroidery workshop kits, ensuring that every piece can be recognised as genuinely made by her.
The Artist’s Signature stands as a promise of quality and a connection between the maker and the person experiencing the piece.
