Having taught drama and set up an arts centre in London, she was challenged by her late husband Rev Rob Frost to learn a different skill as a new year’s resolution and became hooked on embroidery, going on to study a degree in the subject.
Ms Parkinson then broadened her horizons on seeing the large works by late artist Marc Chagall in France.
She used vintage bedsheets, silks and gold leaf for her first huge display Threads through Revelation – which focuses on the last parts of the Bible – in 2014.
It has been viewed, along with the later Threads through Creation, by thousands of people at various cathedrals.
Now for the first time, they are being displayed together with her final section in the trilogy, Threads through the Cross, which depicts key moments from the Biblical narrative of Jesus.
