Artists

Sue Boardman

I like to design using collage either in paper or cloth. Recent textiles have used fragments of fabric to create work with a blue and rust colour palette. My H2O exhibition piece mimics the flow of water around abstract forms . Beading and hand and machine embroidery adds texture to this work.

Joanne Frankel

I am a textile artist based in South Wirral, Cheshire. Originally from the Forest of Dean in Gloucestershire and still a place I very much regard as home, I grew up surrounded by the Forests wonderful and ancient woodlands, rolling hills and rivers as well as a variety of wildlife.
Inspired by the natural world around me, I combine my passion for drawing and painting with contemporary textile techniques.

 

 

Sue Gilchrist

It wasn’t until my forties that I took an interest in creative textile art. It was after visiting a City and Guilds exhibition that I immediately joined a two year course and the rest as they say is history.  Colour and re-cycling are my main sources of inspiration and I gain the most pleasure from making and altering books along with dying and constructing a diverse range of materials.

Kathy Hoolihan

I have sewn for as long as I can remember but it wasn’t until my children became independent that I found the time to devote to textile art. I am lucky to be able to live so close to the coast and to woodlands. That is where I find my inspiration. I love the constantly changing tone and texture of nature and I love to be able to interpret what I see in textiles.

Jane Jenkins

My work includes extensive use of recycled and found materials and is characterised by the mixing of interesting fibres with hand spun yarns, hand dyed fabrics and layered backgrounds for stitch.

 

 

Linda Herbert

I’m inspired by natural rhythms and folk-art similarities, particularly across ethnic traditions, symbols and meanings. I love creating allegorical figurative and miniature pieces, having forty years’ experience of communicating via puppetry performances/workshops on many levels.

 

Jane King

The ever changing palette of colours in nature inspires me to try and capture what I see on walks, in the garden or in a bunch of flowers at home. I use fabrics, fleece, fibres, threads and beads to create my textile artwork. My work involves layering of a variety of fabrics including painted and dyed fabrics or handmade wool felt together with lace, fibres and threads to create texture and to define shapes.

Joan Norton

I use fabrics and machine stitching to create textile art, sculpted forms and objects. I employ a range of hand painted, textured or mixed media backgrounds. My designs are inspired by the natural world, using drawings and photographs as a basis for my designs. I love to experiment with a wide range of fabrics, fibres, yarns and techniques, developing ideas and colour schemes as a basis for new work.

The pieces in the H2O exhibition combine hand made fabrics with machine embroidery techniques.

Sue Sercombe

My aim in life is to experiment with any material that will accept some form of manipulation, be it stitch, print or dye. Three dimension and texture are equally important along with traditional stitching and free-form machining. The biggest challenge and most rewarding is to pass on y knowledge, introducing many students to the pleasures of textiles and I am excited by the fact that some of them have gone onto greater things.

 

 Janet Vance

I like to experiment with lots of techniques and play with colour as I represent aspects of the natural world. My H2O pieces show different aspects of water from dewdrops to the river cutting through the rocks all created in collage, embroidery or weaving.

 

 

Joyce Young

I enjoy using different techniques in my textile pieces and am often inspired by shapes and patterns in nature. I like using hand dyed and printed fabrics as a background and although I do use free machine embroidery, I prefer to embellish my work using hand stitching as I like the control it gives me and the fact that it can be done anywhere.