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Discover creative approaches to creating abstract contemporary textile projects inspired by Nature. There’s magic when you zoom into nature and let yourself be inspired by its colour pattern and texture. In the studio you will learn to recreate nature’s inspiration using a range of experimental embroidery, beading and constructed textile techniques, to create a circular panel.
Bring a zoomed in photo you have taken from the natural world; on walks, in your garden or on the beach: you could look at lichen, fungi, bark, shells, plants, seeds anything with interesting colour, pattern and texture. Take a zoomed in photo using your smart phone or camera cropping into all the really interesting bits ! Print off onto A4 paper and bring to the workshop.
About Vinny : Having worked in fashion and costume Vinny, studied printed textiles at Middlesex University and then went on to work as an embroidery designer for fashion textiles. She is a trained art and textile tutor and her approach is to encourage participants to work experimentally within the taught processes, to develop a more personalised, rather than prescriptive outcome. As well as working on public and private commissions she exhibits widely and is a member of the EAST textiles group.
What you will learn…..
•Develop knowledge of contemporary Art Textiles
• Learn to take a starting point from the Natural World, then be guided through the whole design process to your final piece •
• Learn about using contemporary Applique, embellishment and Constructed textile & Stitch Techniques.
Includes homemade lunch and refreshments
About the tutor
Having worked in fashion and costume Vinny, studied printed textiles at Middlesex University and then went on to work as an embroidery designer for fashion textiles. She is a trained art and textile tutor and her approach is to encourage participants to work experimentally within the taught processes, to develop a more personalised, rather than prescriptive outcome. As well as working on public and private commissions she exhibits widely and is a member of the EAST textiles group.
What you will need to bring
• Zoomed in photo of a natural form surface – such as Lichen, stone, bark, leaf, shell etc. Printed of to A4 scale.
• This is primarily a hand embroidery workshop , but a sewing machine for some freehand machine embroidery would be desirable, though not essential.
• A range of scissors, needles & pins embroidery threads/wools/sewing cottons in colours you think you might use.
• 9” /24cm Embroidery hoop
• A small scrap bag of fabric /lace /textured material.
• Any beads & bugle beads you have.