I love to create abstract art but I do it through stitch using fabrics and paper. The intrigue started at a young age nurtured by my mother, herself a qualified fashion and textiles artist, who taught me how I could express myself through play using her vast collection of vibrant 60’s fabrics and buttons to create collages of flowers combining Nottingham Lace and gold lame fabric. Looking back it clearly seeded itself deep in my brain to re-emerge during art college days when I completed a degree in embroidery at Loughborough College Of Art and Tapestry at the Royal College of Art. Needless to say that gold features strongly in much of my work with additions of silver and copper embedded into the layers of fabric and paint to add depth and reflect light.
“I have an experimental approach to creating work with mixed media on fabric and paper that combines drawing, painting, print, photography and stitch. My work includes wall pieces, digital prints, paper jewellery and photography.”
“I enjoy the versatility of using textiles as a vehicle for abstract expression, exploring feeling and emotion through colour, form, stitch and texture.“
I am a sponge for textured surfaces, distressed paint peeling in layers on sun bleached wood, rusted galvanise, decaying stone…there is texture everywhere that can be emulated and achieved through the painting process and experimentation with materials and media which evokes a feeling of a time and place that I have experienced.
Textile art is a wonderful vehicle for creating texture, fabric can be manipulated, different types of fabrics layered, threads used like paint held down by over stitching using free-motion embroidery or stitch on a sewing machine.
Process and discovery are constantly exciting.
Creating marks and lines is an integral process as an artist, these can relay a lot of expression and portray emotion. Along with the traditional brushes, sponge brushes, palette knives and scrapers I like to create my own tools from twigs and grasses from the garden. There is a fragility to the marks these can make that cannot be achieved any other way.
Mixed media wall piece using digital printing, ink, acrylics on paper and linen and silk with stitch.
Digitally printed archival cotton paper, Ink, acrylic paints iron dust and stitch on paper and linen.
Hand painted, block printed silk and Japanese paper using fabric dyes, puff binder and inks.
Block printed hand painted silk and blackout fabric with machine stitch.
Block printed hand painted silk and blackout fabric with machine stitch
Block printed hand painted silk and blackout fabric with machine stitch
Digitally printed archival cotton paper, hand painted, block printed Japanese paper and silk with machine stitch.
Hand painted, block printed Japanese paper and silk with machine stitch.
Hand painted, block printed Japanese paper and mixed fabrics with hand and machine stitch.
Free-motion machine embroidery on painted cotton fleece.
Freemotion embroidery over recycled threads and fabrics.
Gold and silver foil on mixed fabrics with organic matter.
Cloth, stitch, acrylic paint and gesso on canvas.
Mixed media and cloth on canvas
Cloth and stitch with acrylics and gesso on canvas
Ink and gesso on perforated canvas with machine stitching and stitched vanishing fabric additions.
Gesso on perforated canvas with acrylic paints, machine stitching, hand stitching, ink on Japanese paper and fabric.
Ink and block print on stitched paper and fabric collage.
Brushed ink on fabric collage with stitch.
Ink on mixed fabric collage with machine stitch.
Brushed ink on mixed fabric collage with hand and machine stitch.
Ink on mixed fabric collage with hand and machine stitch.
Brushed ink on mixed fabric collage with machine stitch.
Abstract fabric collage on canvas with gesso, acrylic paints, ink, Japanese paper with hand and machine stitch.
Fabric collage. Ink on silk and cotton with machine stitched vanishing fabric.
Fabric and thread collage with ink and machine stitch.
No.5 Mill St, Torrington, Devon, EX38 8AL, United Kingdom
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