Post card images of Diana Bliss’ graduate exhibition work, called ‘Transversing the Surface (a series of walks along the River Dee in Cheshire)’. From her artist statement: ‘My work is dominated by a sense of place and by exploring Landscape through the rhythms and mark making of stitch and paint, the works can be seen as panoramic or under close […]
Read More...Ingrid Lincoln and I have just returned from the private view of this year’s graduates of the Julia Caprara School of Stitched Textiles BA(Hons) degree programme exhibition in Redchurch Gallery, London. 6 students had a selection of their final work displayed in the gallery. Viny Smit, Principal of the school, welcomed everyone. Alice Kettle gave […]
Read More...The first Fine Arts Textiles course is nearly finished. We started with 2 basic hand stitches then spent 2 full days a week for 5 weeks exploring the qualities of many variables possible with these 2 stitches. And we barely scratched the surface. Throughout the course different students often shared an area of expertise which […]
Read More...The students in the ‘Mark Making with Stitch’ class at Victoria College of Art may have looked and sounded as though they were just playing with a pile of textiles but they were in fact working. They assembled a collection of different fabrics with potential for the Self Applique technique.They collected samples of shot weave…. […]
Read More...More explorations of opening up the textile with stitch from Victoria College of Art students.
Read More...I have been developing my response to the composted cloth. After I found it was disintegrating, I put a backing cloth behind it – a small tea table cloth. Here is a quick drawing of how it will look. After stitching through both layers to secure all of the tears, I am now working through […]
Read More...Back in 2005 Quilting Arts Magazine featured a series of articles written by Julia Caprara. In the Winter issue, Julia wrote about the importance of all textile students building their own personal “touch palette”. Since reading the article, I have followed Julia’s advice and used the technique she described as “painting with fabric, thread, and […]
Read More...I am filling my blog space with colour today to remember Julia Caprara who passed away on Friday. Julia was one of the doyennes of the art world. People all around the planet will be feeling a sense of loss. Many will be wondering how they will cope without her. But no one more than […]
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