January 1, 1970

‘This is your Victory’ by Harriet Riddell (machine-stitched with mixed media elements). ‘I decided to enter this competition of creating a portrait of Winston Churchill because I was intrigued to discover and learn about someone my own father regarded as a hero … This stitch shows the weight of men on Churchill’s shoulders. On the left, the sailors are looking down because of the bloody failure of the Dardanelles Campaign in 1915, which resulted in the loss of thousands of men.’

copyright: Harriet Riddell