I am delighted to present for sale these embroidered works: a collaboration between two artists, Wilson Neto and Vera Sampaio, both based in the city of Fortaleza, North-eastern Brazil. Wilson provides the drawn design, and Vera interprets it in thread. Wilson Neto has exhibited widely within Brazil and internationally, most recently at the Museum of the City of Skopje, Macedonia. His work brings together aspects of daily, urban experience with a fascination for the ancient. Ancient artefacts, symbols and mythologies fuse his work, whilst remaining connected to the contemporary. Vera’s work is exhibited and collected widely and can be found in many private collections around the globe. Her technical prowess and love for the medium of embroidery, together with an instinctive playfulness, makes her work a joy to observe and collect. Brazil’s unique, complex and fertile mix of indigenous, African and European cultures are reflected in these works, which depict or evoke both quotidian objects, animals and human figures but also mermaids, female warriors and other folkloric elements that are so present in Brazilian culture. The use of thread as an artistic, narrative and symbolic medium has a very natural relevance to this work, as Vera works within the long and noble tradition of weaving meaning and story with thread - from the pre-colombian khipu tradition, where strings and threads were used to record data and stories by Inca peoples (and many other peoples of the Central Andean region) to the most rarefied and commodified tapestries of late medieval Europe. Today, embroidery, tapestry and thread works have found new, contemporary forms in the work of Judy Chicago, Faith Ringgold and Anni Albers, among so many others. These works by Wilson Neto and Vera Sampaio are a collaboration which blends and merges the notions of fine art and craft, and which has friendship and mutual creative freedom at its heart.